What allergies do your children have?
My 2 1/2 year old is allergic to peanuts, tree nuts, eggs and garlic and also has asthma. She just started pre-school and this is my first real exposure to other people feeding her when I'm not around. Scary!
Since being diagnosed, we haven't had any major problems - just rash breakouts occasionally which have been handled with Benedryl.
Since being diagnosed, we haven't had any major problems - just rash breakouts occasionally which have been handled with Benedryl.
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Permalink Reply by Finamoon on -
My 4 year old daughter is allergic to Cephalosporins, Penicillins, Betalactans, Promethazine, and Latex. The first three are all antibiotics and will cause her to have a severe hemolytic reaction (esp. the first one...of which we found out about in a bad way). The Promethazine causes her to have seizures and the Latex she gets a bad rash because of her very sensitive skin.
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Permalink Reply by JennK on -
My 12yo twins have celiac disease. My son is also allergic to penicillin, sulfa drugs, and cephalosprins, so we have to be careful about the antibiotics with him. I'm allergic to those three plus fluoroquinolones (Cipro) and Tetracycline.
Celiac is easily controlled by maintaining a gluten-free diet. My kids each respond differently to gluten. DS feels the effects almost immediately, with digestive upset, headaches, and what he calls "brain fog." He's very compliant because he doesn't want to feel that way. DD's side effects are more internal -- anemia and failure to gain weight/grow, with the more obvious headaches and other upsets not coming unless she's consumed a lot of gluten over a period of time. Unfortunately, without the more immediate side effects, she tends to think she can cheat, even though it's causing damage. Not at home, of course, but when she's at friend's houses or at summer camp (where they'd be perfectly willing and able to keep her GF). We're working on it...
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Permalink Reply by Eva on -
I have a son who is possibly celiac and daughter who has sensitivity to gluten, soy, corn, dairy, of course, wheat, rye, barley. I also have a sensitivity to the above items. It has been a real challenge changing my children's eating habits.
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Permalink Reply by Eva on
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what age did you discover the celiac? I have a 3 year old that I feel is celiac and he does not like his food changes!! On top of gluten allergy he has dairy, soy, corn.
JennK said:My 12yo twins have celiac disease. My son is also allergic to penicillin, sulfa drugs, and cephalosprins, so we have to be careful about the antibiotics with him. I'm allergic to those three plus fluoroquinolones (Cipro) and Tetracycline.
Celiac is easily controlled by maintaining a gluten-free diet. My kids each respond differently to gluten. DS feels the effects almost immediately, with digestive upset, headaches, and what he calls "brain fog." He's very compliant because he doesn't want to feel that way. DD's side effects are more internal -- anemia and failure to gain weight/grow, with the more obvious headaches and other upsets not coming unless she's consumed a lot of gluten over a period of time. Unfortunately, without the more immediate side effects, she tends to think she can cheat, even though it's causing damage. Not at home, of course, but when she's at friend's houses or at summer camp (where they'd be perfectly willing and able to keep her GF). We're working on it...
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Permalink Reply by JennK on
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Eva, my kids were diagnosed almost exactly four years ago, but it took us several years to get a diagnosis. As I said, my daughter was the most physically compromised. At age 8, she weighed less than 45 pounds. She was getting up to six nosebleeds a day, some of which went on for hours. She would lose circular patches of hair, bruised very easily, and couldn't make it through the day without a nap. We found out later this was because her body wasn't absorbing any nutrients from her food, so she was iron and calcium deficient. Since going GF, my daughter's almost doubled her weight and no longer gets nosebleeds. My son was affected more digestively and neurologically, and those problems are completely resolved on the GF diet.
How are you approaching the transition to the diet? For us, attitude made a huge difference. When we thought about everything we were giving up, it was a huge chore. When we concentrated on how much better everyone was feeling and all the new foods we were trying, things got much easier. Good luck!
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Permalink Reply by Dorene on -
My 19 month old son is allergic to both milk proteins. He also has asthma and seasonal allergies. We have had a difficult time getting him to gain weight and he has been labeled Failure to Thrive. He is currently about 20 lbs 12 oz. I stopped working in July so I could keep him at home. He was just getting too sick at daycare. Constant colds which aggravated his asthma and developed into pneumonia. Plus now I can monitor his food intake more and make sure he is not eating something eat shouldn't. His blood was tested for celiac but came back with no indicators but I know that is not a definitive test....
My 4 year old daughter is allergic to Amoxicillin but I rarely think of that as an allergy. Which is wrong, I know.
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Permalink Reply by minnemom on -
My son is allergic to peanuts and Brazil nuts.
I have children who have outgrown allergies to milk, soy, and eggs. :-)
Linda
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Permalink Reply by JennK on
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Mar, is your daughter eating gluten again leading up to the endoscopy? If you're already on a GF diet, the endoscopy results are likely to show little or no damage because the gut can heal over time on a GF diet. Your daughter may also show minimal damage because of age -- it can take time for gluten to do enough damage to the villi that it shows up on the scope. I'm not trying to talk you out of anything, just trying to offer up info so you can talk to your daughter's pediatric GI. Also, keep in mind that even if the scope doesn't show anything, it doesn't mean there's not a problem. The scope won't give a false positive, but it gives a LOT of false negatives.
Good luck!
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Permalink Reply by JediMom on -
My 5-year-old son has peanut and tree nut allergies. He recently outgrew a milk allergy, which has made life much easier. My son also has asthma.
He has never had an anaphylactic reaction. He had a quick and severe reaction to peanuts (hives and his eyes swelled shut) when he was about 18 months. Blood tests continue to show a very high reaction to peanuts, cashews and almonds. So our strategy is for an allergy action plan that assumes he could have an anaphylactic reaction.
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Permalink Reply by PRMom on -
My son is allergic to sesame, peanuts and tree nuts. Thankfully, he has outgrown allergies to eggs, sunflower, and mustard. He is in first grade. We are lucky because my husband is a teacher at the school my son attends, so in addition to the teacher having an epi-pen, my husband has one too. It's not a peanut free school, but the teachers really look out for him and (knock on wood), so far no problems.
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Permalink Reply by MrsGlutenFree on -
My 4 year old son has Celiac disease
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Permalink Reply by Morningside Mom on -
My 5 yo son has a peanut allergy. So far, he has only reacted once when he injested some whipped cream on PB pie a couple years ago - but that was enough for me. We see an allergist, have an epipen and bendryl at all times and hold our breaths everyday. We are also avid fans of sunbutter (sunflower seed butter safe for peanut allergies) - tastes just like PB, same protien, GREAT stuff. And cheap - $2.99 in my target. Anyway, thanks for putting together this group!
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