When Kallie was 15 months old I gave her a little bit of my waffle with peanut butter and we immediately knew something was up. Her face turned bright red and her eye started swelling shut. Luckily a quick does of Benadryl is all she needed to stop the reaction. We ended up taking the allergist when she was around 2 years old and they confirmed she is allergic. From that day on we have been a peanut free household. We check every label to ensure her food is peanut free and not processed in a facility with peanuts. My biggest concern is when we go out to dinner and I ask the serve if the food has peanuts and they assure me without checking any labels or talking to the chef that there are no peanuts. Kallie usually ends up getting a cheeseburger with no bun just to be on the safe side.
For the time being I feel like as long as we are diligent it is manageable and we always have two epipens on hand no matter where we are. I know that the older she gets and the more she goes to birthday parties, sleepovers etc my fears will increase. .|
We retested the allergy last week and unfortunately she is not growing out of the allergy like we had hoped. Here are pics for her latest apt, poor big!
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