It’s so nice to see people still reading this. Thank you

Wow i just learnt a lot thanks

kool

Welcome to the world of being a allergy mum you spend half your time clearing up what people believe lol

Allergy and intolerance, you’re right, I thought they basically meant the same thing.

thats quite a funny read,

thank you, I never realised there was a difference, I thought intolerance and allergy was the same thing,

Allergy Week. One in Ten children born in Australia will have a food Allergy. Thats huge and yet it wasn’t until 2003 that you could get an epipen on PBS. And even now you can only get 2 EpiPen’s on PBS every 12mth, regardless of if you’ve had to use them or not.

Reminds me of a friend who said they were vegetarian. We were having a bbq so I made sure to get some veggie burgers and cook them on a separate part of the grill so they were not in contact with the meat. Everything was served up and I noticed that she was having a sausage in bread! You are not vegetarian if you eat me. You are not allergic to foods if you can have it. And true, eggs do not come from cows but I think we tend to group everything in the ‘dairy’ isle as being ‘dairy’.

Fantastic read I have family members that deal with this as well as my own all different to your sons ones but have the same struggle. It is hard and I know when I cook for them I have to be so careful otherwise I will put them in hospital or could be much worse. I also think your right, if you have not been though it, you just don’t know, this happens with sicknesses diseases all kind of things but by sharing you are opining the eyes of others.

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  • • channiib replied
    • 06 May 2014 , 8:55 pm

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  Thankyou for the positive words, I was a bit nervous to write something that can cause a stir. But it is so important to me.

A very good explanation! And yes people just don’t seem to understand that even a little bit can cause a huge allergic reaction! For some reason they feel if you give a child who can’t eat chocolate because of a dairy allergy some chocolate, it’s called a treat! Ummmm.. NO!

YES! I have lost count of friend telling me that they’re allergic to something now when it simply ‘gives them the runs’. Allergy seems to be synonymous with ‘Intolerance’ nowadays because it SOUNDS so much more serious (kind of like my husband saying that he has the flu everytime he gets a sniffle), but allergies can be life threatening. A little girl went into an anaphylaxis at the local park last year because another child had eaten peanut butter toast for breakfast and smeared his fingers on the play equipment. It must be really challenging for parents with small children with allergies. Stories like these educate us and I like the idea of addressing it in the ‘Healthy Harold’ van.

if you type dairy into google images you will be surprised how most of the photos have eggs in them!

You are right eggs are often classified as Dairy in the supermarket or on shopping lists.

Yes exactly the more contact they have, the larger the next reaction can be, sometimes occasioning a life threatening situation. It is a little sad that people don’t realise that just by touching things it can be bad. I’ve had good friends say “but surely if he touched one I bet nothing would happen.” I’m sure if that persons child was in the same situation they wouldn’t risk it either. The same friend even suggested I put egg shells on my garden with my compost, saying that if it’s just on the garden it wouldn’t hurt him. I feel for you with the latex allergy as it is in a lot of things. I would like to see more awareness in the community. I think some sort of allergy education like when they have the Healthy Harold life vans at school with a section dedicated to allergy would be great. There are some great books I seen for small children at the Paediatricians for sale titled things like “Nut free for me.” Just to make people aware. I’ve heard many parents complain about not being able to take peanut butter sandwiches to school etc and argue passionately about it. It does make you feel a bit sad that if it was their child they wouldn’t want something that was potentially life threatening around. We have educated our boy about his allergies and he is so good. He is now 8 and I’ve never asked him to do so but he often picks up the back of packets to make sure it is ok for him. I only have the one child and I feel so blessed. The positive side is I guess we never had junk food early on because of his allergies a lot of things were homemade. The first time you do a shop it takes forever reading labels. We now breeze through, knowing what products we can and can’t buy. All the best to all of you going through an allergy.

my Daughter is allergic to latex which people do not understand is in alot of under wear clothes ect she can not be touch nor use latex gloves ext. So when she works she has to supply her own. When she has an op she has to go first as it has to be sterile and not been in contact with latex. Also than they have to tube her with special tubes as well as she can not wear the cap or booties for theater. Can not be touched by balloons now this one for some reason people can not get through there heads as well as many other things and she was told the more she comes in to contact the higher the chance of a deadly reaction and people don’t understand even where she works as they think well you can wear latex gloves just this once …no she can’t . They do not realise the more you come into contact with it the worse your reaction is. But I do love that eggs don’t come from cows

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  • • channiib replied
    • 22 Apr 2014 , 1:00 pm

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  I feel for your daughter Latex would be a very difficult one. And yes it’s sad how people assume you should just deal with it. Or a little won’t hurt.

Hail Mary. Thank goodness someone understands what I’m going through. My son is allergic as in we have an Epi Pen for Eggs and Nuts. When we first got diagnosed I was so angry about all the opinionated people that kept saying but “shouldn’t you give him a little bit, so his system gets used to it?” The fact of the matter is if this method is practised, the immune system eventually has a major anaphylactic reaction that can be life threatening. I’m sorry to say but it’s not like being gluten intolerant whereby you experience stomach upset, diarrhoea, bloating and discomfort, but actually in some cases a matter if life or death. He also has asthma and when he was tiny had severe atopic ezcema and was admitted to hospital for both of these on a number of occasion. Happy to say that his eczema is now well under control and only requires moisturisation to his hands so he doesn’t get cracks from contact dermatitis etc now. We at some stage were wet dressing him and bandaging and the poor little thing looked like a mummy. Now just to clarify I mean no disrespect to those people who have intolerances, but allergies are just that- a foreign body that can cause major or minor (depending on the severity of the allergy) reactions and require immediate action. Just a thought I have kept an eye out on the allergy related recipes. I was thinking that we should submit a request to the MoM team to provide a section titled Allergies and then we could post recipes that state egg free or dairy free, nut free etc. it is so good to see this post and know that someone is going through and experiences the same daily things as we do. Thanks for your post.

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  • • channiib replied
    • 19 Apr 2014 , 8:18 pm

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  Thank you so much for reading. And yes it is comforting to hear there is someone out there that gets it too. I don’t mean any disrespect to people that don’t, But it can get frustrating dealing with the same ignorance day in and day out.
  We have been on such a journey with this I told the Dr’s when my son was two days old there was something wrong. We didn’t get a proper diagnosis until he was 2yrs old. We are just so lucky that i refused to give him Dairy as in my gut i new it was the problem.
  I totally Agree I would LOVE to see a ALLERGY section, I am forever changing recipes to work for us.

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    • • mom94125 replied
      • 17 Jun 2015 , 12:34 am

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    yes it would be nice to have more ways to sort the recipes to make things easier to find