Posted by: dlibby1angel
« on: September 18, 2013, 09:01:27 PM »
Before our son was officially diagnosed with multiple allergies we were clued-in to the whole allergy thing when he reacted after playing with the bird seed in our basement. He was just two and was loading it into his dump truck and driving it around; something he had done several times before. However he began to sneeze, had hives, red eyes, runny nose and wheezing. Thank goodness my mom was here as she said the little man was really sick and I needed to do something. I think I was just perplexed and didn't have a clue. But after she said that I snapped out of it and gave him some Benadryl, which calmed everything down.
That was years ago now and we are now well educated and vigilant with all of his allergies. He has blood tests every year or two to track levels and skin tests every two or three depending on if we want to introduce a new food, like lobster...yep allergic.
But in retrospect (duh!) just recently, it dawned on me that he could likely have contact and or airborne issues with sunflower seeds. Sure, when he was two he could have put his hands in is mouth and ingested some --highly likely. But how do I know for sure, one way or the other, in a safe way? He just turned 8 today. Would it be expected that his allergist would have said to avoid contact if that was the case? We do limit is contact anyway, but he is now at risk for exposure while attending our home school co-op. they have asked families to leaves all nuts and sunflower seeds at home. But homeschoolers can be pretty independent minded and not comply or just forget.