Tag: allergy friendly
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Food Allergy Parents Are Not Overreacting
“Katie, calm down. She didn’t eat any of it. It’s really not a big deal.” We were at a family gathering and my daughter had her own safe meal. However, my toddler, fast as lightning, reached over and grabbed food off of another child’s plate. I was concerned about possible cross-contact with her allergens based…
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Feeding Food Allergens to Siblings
“How are we supposed to do this?” I sobbed. I was sitting on our bed, venting to my husband while blowing my snotty nose. We had just started introducing peanut butter to our second child, which was one of our daughter’s food allergies, and my anxiety was racing a hundred miles per hour. How long…