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Author Topic: Living with Food Allergies, 2013 and on  (Read 384564 times)

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Offline Macabre

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Re: Living with Food Allergies, 2013 and on
« Reply #855 on: November 17, 2014, 01:02:27 PM »
I'm glad it's not worse. Hope he deals with it okay emotionally.  Hospitals can be a scary place.
Me: Sesame, shellfish, chamomile, sage
DS: Peanuts

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Re: Living with Food Allergies, 2013 and on
« Reply #856 on: November 17, 2014, 01:14:55 PM »
Ugh.  This has been a horrible, very bad, no good kinda week around here.  YOWZA.

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QFT

I'm thinking of giving DS a benedryl sippy cup....like Hitch in the movie.

He HATES benedryl.  And I now have him on the liquid every four hours.  This has him cranky.  I was pulling apart his room (to despidify in case that's the problem). But he got mad and kicked me out.  Now he's doing it himself.

Fine with me.  I'm washing all the laundry.

I think something was in his bed. I cannot wash the quilts, so he'll have to take an extra (which will again make him angry.

Offline LinksEtc

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Re: Living with Food Allergies, 2013 and on
« Reply #857 on: November 17, 2014, 01:39:39 PM »
 :heart:  TT


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Re: Living with Food Allergies, 2013 and on
« Reply #858 on: November 17, 2014, 01:44:15 PM »
Ugh, TT, glad things weren't worse!
TX - USA
DS - peanut, tree nut, milk, eggs, corn, soy, several meds, many environmentals. Finally back on Xolair!
DD - mystery anaphylaxis, shellfish.
DH - banana/avocado, aspirin.  Asthma.
Me - peanut, tree nut, shellfish, banana/avocado/latex,  some meds.

Offline Janelle205

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Re: Living with Food Allergies, 2013 and on
« Reply #859 on: November 17, 2014, 01:45:31 PM »
SL, could you use a medication syringe?  I use one to get the nasty pred mostly past my tongue when taking it.

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Re: Living with Food Allergies, 2013 and on
« Reply #860 on: November 17, 2014, 02:26:42 PM »
SL, could you use a medication syringe?  I use one to get the nasty pred mostly past my tongue when taking it.

I tried that before. But his gag reflex kicks in even more with that, than with the taste.

You would think he could swallow pills by now...but apparently not.

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Re: Living with Food Allergies, 2013 and on
« Reply #861 on: November 17, 2014, 02:55:21 PM »
I'm glad it's not worse. Hope he deals with it okay emotionally.  Hospitals can be a scary place.

Or be like Em and want to go back because she likes the taste of steroids and the bed with a controller  ~)

TT - I am so sorry (((hugs)))
DS1 - Wheat, rye, barley and egg
DS2 - peanuts
DD -  tree nuts, soy and sunflower
Me - bananas, eggplant, many drugs
Southeast USA

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Re: Living with Food Allergies, 2013 and on
« Reply #862 on: November 17, 2014, 06:14:20 PM »
TT, so sorry.  Hope he is feeling better.

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Re: Living with Food Allergies, 2013 and on
« Reply #863 on: November 17, 2014, 07:18:45 PM »
Ugh.  This has been a horrible, very bad, no good kinda week around here.  YOWZA.

 :grouphug:

Yup.

Have 2 kids doing lots of "wing spreading" here in my home . . . and it has me very worried that we've got a reax around the corner.

{{HUGS}} to TT and family.  Glad it was not worse!!

Is this where I blame iPhone and cuss like an old fighter pilot's wife?

**(&%@@&%$^%$#^%$#$*&      LOL!!   

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Re: Living with Food Allergies, 2013 and on
« Reply #864 on: November 17, 2014, 09:50:37 PM »
Sorry TT, hope he is ok :(
peanut, treenut, sesame
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Re: Living with Food Allergies, 2013 and on
« Reply #865 on: November 17, 2014, 11:49:52 PM »
Thanks, all. 

We went with extra heavy Zyrtec tonight and cortisone for the eczema patch flare-ups.  Mystery reactions being the lovely surprises they are we may never know but I sort of suspect underlying full cup.  It is a real humdinger of a week for all of us, innit?

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Re: Living with Food Allergies, 2013 and on
« Reply #866 on: November 18, 2014, 05:52:20 AM »
 :disappointed:
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Re: Living with Food Allergies, 2013 and on
« Reply #867 on: November 18, 2014, 07:16:08 AM »
I'm glad it's not worse. Hope he deals with it okay emotionally.  Hospitals can be a scary place.

Or be like Em and want to go back because she likes the taste of steroids and the bed with a controller  ~)

TT - I am so sorry (((hugs)))

Darn it. The hospital bracelet should have had more bling!
Me: Sesame, shellfish, chamomile, sage
DS: Peanuts

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Re: Living with Food Allergies, 2013 and on
« Reply #868 on: November 18, 2014, 07:46:19 AM »
Do not want to discuss right now, but did not sleep well last night because of a FA issue.  must.step.away.from.ipad for a while.


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Re: Living with Food Allergies, 2013 and on
« Reply #869 on: November 18, 2014, 10:53:14 AM »
I was too excited.   ;D


"FDA Urged to Require Better Labeling of Sesame, an Allergen"
http://cspinet.org/new/201411181.html#.VGt4TV0SNvQ.twitter

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The Center for Science in the Public Interest is asking the Food and Drug Administration to require that sesame be disclosed on food labels in the same manner as milk, eggs, fish, shellfish, tree nuts, peanuts, wheat, and soy are disclosed.