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Surgery and hospitalization with food allergies?
gufyduck:
Has anyone been through being hospitalized or having a hospitalized family member with food allergies? I have to have surgery soon and I have been told to plan for at least one night in the hospital. Just thinking this through on the food allergy front, since I know I won't be fully with it after to be my usual self advocate.
hezzier:
My son spent one night in the hospital due to illness not surgery, we brought dinner into the hospital since they were not restricting his diet. He ordered eggs and bacon in the morning after we confirmed they were safe. My husband and I switched out ever couple hours during the day and then I spent the night with him.
If you aren't being restricted with what you can eat and don't trust the kitchen, bring some shelf stable food with you.
rebekahc:
Our experience over several hospital overnights between 3 of us with LTFA has been that they overestimate their ability to feed us safely and their dieticians may be fine when dealing with low-sodium or diabetic diets, but are clueless WRT food allergies. Our very worst hospital experience was when DS was about 2 and in the ER for mystery anaphylaxis - several known allergens at the time including milk, eggs and peanuts. They didn’t have any liquid pred and their solution was to offer to give him a pill in a spoonful of pudding. After I pointed out that pudding has milk, they offered to put it in a spoonful of peanut butter instead. :insane: :rant: :dunce:
It’s not much better with drug allergies. Twice we’ve been given anaphylaxis in the hospital because they chose to not believe us and administer drugs we said we were allergic to. One of those times, DS had to be admitted for 4 days on oxygen and respiratory therapy due to the reaction. The other, the doctor joked with me, ‘well, if I had believed you were allergic I wouldn’t have given you that medicine. I guess the best place to have anaphylaxis is the OR since you’ll be intubated anyway!’ (I was in pre-op at the time) :disappointed:
So, those bad experiences shouldn’t scare you - just make sure you’re cautious and have someone there who can watch your back if you’re out if it and can bring you food if necessary.
PurpleCat:
I agree! I am always shocked and surprised that a hospital food and beverage operation is clueless with food allergies. Some nurses are pretty uneducated as well. Guard up, all times, trust no one!
eragon:
bring own food or ask family to feed you.
hospital food has been very risky in our experience.
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