Hello!!!
Welcome to my world of food allergies! i myself and my husband have NO food allergis what-so-ever. We both suffer, me more then him, from the typical seasonal allergies, pollen, ragweed, freshcut grass, and so on. I also suffer from asthma, the kind that is onset by a cold or sinus infection, pretty basic and normal stuff.
My children, firstborn is Madeline, she started at age two with a tree nut allergy (hence the title of the blog). It was discovered when a family member was caring for her and gave her a cashew, 2 hours later i was driving her unresponsive, laborded breathing body to the ER. Tree nuts consist of any nut that is NOT a peanut, i.e. cashews, almonds, pecans, pine nuts, pesto, walnuts, etc.
A year later she tested positive for soy, peanuts, beans and mustard.
My son, Nicholas, born 3 years after the first. When he was 9 months old, i tried yogurt on him. He immediately turned pale with pink eyes, was highly irritable and spit up a lot. Diary allergy. Both my kids were breat fed so neither were exposed to cows milk until the introduction of yogurt and cheese. As soon as 12 month came around he was weaned onto soy milk and followed a milk free diet, bit he still consumed items that had milk as a cooked in ingrdient, such as waffles, bread products, crackers...
At 18 months he was diagnosed with Eosinophilic esophagitis, also know as EE (http://www.apfed.org/ee.htm#eosinophil) and now he is banned of consumming anything with dairy, even in the same factory as, along with wheat, eggs, potaoes, and corn.
Yes, my son's allergies make my daughters seem like a piece of cake which hers are, but please, no nutz in that cake!
