Food Allergies Treatment

Question by ames16031: What snacks/treats can a child allergic to milk, eggs and nuts eat?
My boyfriend’s 4 year old nephew is coming to stay with us this weekend and he has the above allergies. I’d still like to make some treats for him to have while he is with us. Any ideas?

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Answer by honeybee191919
jello!

i mix fruit salad and put jello in it, and add sugar. so good they won’t know it is healthy!

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Question by skbonnevie: For any of you parents that have a child with food allergies, do you remove all food allergens from the home?
Our 18 mo. old has recently been diagnosed as having a severe milk allergy, and she also has allergies to eggs and peanuts as well – perhaps not quite as severe as the milk allergy.

For other parents/families struggling with the same issue – do you try to “coexist” with food allergens in your house? Or do you completely remove them from the house? There are 3 of us with no food allergies at all, but is it just the safer/better option to competely get the allergens out of the house?

For those of you who keep the allergens in the house – are there any tricks for doing this safely?

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Answer by desmeran (emeritus)
we completely removed them from the house. we were concerned not only about the allergic kids accidentally getting into the food or a clueless babysitter or someone serving it to them, but also about getting crumbs/traces on our hands or on the table or counter and cross-contaminating other foods.

*if you do keep them in the house, i’d have a dedicated shelf of safe foods in the pantry and refrigerator for the child with the allergy, and i’d also get in the habit of washing counters and tables every single time before you eat, and having everyone wash hands immediately after eating (as well as before, especially for the child with the allergy). zorro, thumbs down not from me but i’m tempted. you don’t learn to live with anaphylaxis … you can merely stay as far away as possible from the things that trigger it. one crumb can do it, and siblings make a lot of crumbs.

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Question by Waiting4Forever: Do you think certain foods should be banned because a child has an allergy to it?
LIke, if a child is deathly allergic to peanuts… Should peanuts be banned from the school? What about if your child is deathly allergic to wheat? Milk?

I think that if you ban [insert allergy] to protect children who are deathly allergic to it, then you should ban [insert different allergy] to protect the kids who are deathly allergic to it. I don’t think it is fair to protect kids who are deathly allergic to [insert allergy] but not protect the kids who are deathly allergic to [insert allergy].

Hypothetical situation: Your school bans peanuts because one child has a deathly allergic reaction to it. However, your child has a deathly allergic reaction to [insert different allergy] but the school refuses to ban it. Do you think it is fair to protect one child but not the other?

What about for elementary? Middle school? High School?

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Answer by Sara
It’s not right for a school to ban an allergy for one kid, and not do it for another kid with a different allergy. I’d be pretty pissed off.
My son doesn’t have any allergies thank god. But his daycare bans anything with nuts in it. Only because there is a kid with a but allergy, but it’s not deadly.

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Question by .: if a child had mmilk allergies?
When my daughter was a baby she had severe milk allergies. If I drank milk and breastfed her she’d get a pussy rash under her neck and scream with tummy pain, so I quit milk and then eventually put her on soy formula. By the time she was one she could drink milk without the problems. She still has a lot of allergies like asthma sinus drainage ect. Do you think taking her off dairy products again will fix these problems?
lol it bleeped out my description of her rash. the rash was oozy there maybe that’ll work.

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Taking her off milk and dairy again won’t get rid of asthma or other allergies, it will just alleviate her allergies to milk.

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Question by bby_blue_eyes2003: At what age did you give your child cows milk and why?
I breast feed my son and my milk supply has steadly declined. My son eats baby food, cereal, juice, water, finger foods, and he gets breast milk when he has the patience to wait for it to drop, or if I have the patience to sit pumping for an hour. I get very little breast milk and I have tried EVERYTHING to get the supply up and its just not working. i have tried supplimenting with formula, but he gags on it…I do 1/4 formula/ 3/4 breastmilk, he gags…Dark Kayro, juice to sweeten, but nothing he gags. He is 10.5 months old..this is why I am wondering when you started your kids on cows milk. I know they say wait till they are a year old, because of allergies and such, but he eats his baby food, and he also like to try yogurt, cheeze, ice cream, little sips of milk, or whatever you are eating…and has no reaction to the dairy. no fussiness, no gas, poops fine… so…could be be ready for milk milk? I just cant seem to produce what he needs now….

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Answer by Beth
They are really ready by their first birthday but it’s good that you are giving him a taste here and there to get his system ready for dairy. Waiting until his first birthday is ideal.

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