This has been another busy week with something almost everyday. Today it was out to Langley for a birthday party. Now normally I wouldn't blog someone elses birthday party, but it was a really scary party, and not in the sense that there were dinosaurs on the birthday "cake." The "cake" was rice krispes with green icing on top, so of course I asked "what's up with the "cake"? and found out that one of the little boys there is allergic to eggs, hence no real cake. So I ended up chit chatting with the mom about allergies, her son is allergic to peanuts too. It is always good to talk to other people on how they do things and to realize you are not alone. Although, being allergic to eggs is a whole new thing. So we were sitting around, it was almost time to get going, but I didn't feel like it yet as the kids were all playing so good. Another adult had the little boy on her lap and was feeding him baby carrots with ranch dressing, then the mom come running back from the bathroom and grabbed him and ran to the van, saying over her shoulder, there is eggs in ranch dressing. WHAT!! so I followed, as I thought it would be good to see how an EpiPen works, but she didn't have it with her. She had talked to the hostess the day before and gone over the food, and thought she didn't need it. SO off I run to get my keys and my EpiPen that was in the van. He had only a couple hives and breathing was fine so in the end we gave him the Benedryl I had. Now this is an reaction to less then half a teaspoon of ranch dressing that just had eggs in, not even a straight egg and he had such a instant reaction. She phoned me later, his face had started to swell, so off they went to the walk in clinic and had more Benedryl and had to wait two and half hours for the swelling to go down.
This has shown me the importance of NEVER leaving the house with out my blue diaper bag. (It's totally falling apart, but I need a bag with a pocket in the front as in a emergency the last thing I want to do is dump a bag and "find"it.) It has been so temping so many times since Danielle is toilet trained to not haul the bag around, to the grocery store , nursery, friends house etc. or when it is forgotten to not go back home and get it, but it is so worth the extra work because even with everything planned and even having a different cake you just never know, and it happens so FAST. Sometimes my brain get tired of thinking and assessing situations and always having it a part of my life, but that's the way it is. Like at the kindergarten grand when it was snack time before I even got to the table she ( Danielle) had reached up and grabbed the first thing could get and that was a home made white chocolate macadamia nut cookie. Nope not good, put that back and gave her a candy so no crying and got her some popcorn twists. She was happy and life carried on.
I have been doing some of research right now since I don't know if I should or shouldn't be having peanut butter right now, so my little babe gets used to the proteins My allergist and two doctors all said "now that's a good question, I don't know the answer." What!!! you are a Doctor don't they always know the answers, or at least talk long enough so you think they know the answer. SO I really don't know it I should be having peanut butter sandwiches at night now or not. One theory for the rise in allergies in our clean society. I would mix dirt in with my soup or brush my teeth with the sand in the sand box if I could be guaranteed that this baby would not have allergies. Another theory is, that in our society we are having too much peanut. It is a cheap protein that "everybody used to grow up on." Japan is having a rise in rice allergies were as here in north America it is considered one of the lest allergic foods. (we generally start with rice cereal, as the first "solid" food). So I am not really sure what to do, and have just not been having any peanuts. A cousin of mine, her son was just diagnosed with peanut allergies too. It just seems so crazy that there are so many kids with this, and what can be done? Carrying a EpiPen is a life saving solution, but doesn't fix the problem.(allergy)