OK, really, this is an anti-peanut page.
Julie has a very severe peanut allergy, a rare form of the allergy and for that we are oddly quite thankful, simply because it actually gives us opportunity to help her. We hear the following statement quite frequently; ” I bet it’s hard to have a kid with a peanut allergy.” our answer for that is a two part-er ” Not really, it’s the reality we have to live in, so it’s not difficult or weird for us” or “Not as hard as living without her would be…”
I’m going to post links here to helpful resources and some fun stuff too.
One thing we love at our house (which reminds me, I need to order more….) is SunButter. It is a peanut butter alternative. It is actually Sunflower butter and it comes in an AWESOME variety of flavors and textures! It’s made in a completely peanut-free facility, which is NOT easy to find.
Here’s the link if you want to check it out!
Plus it’s better for you than peanut butter too!
If you want to try SunButter without ordering a ton of it, try the store locator, although it’s so awesome that after you buy it in the store you are going to want to go home and order five cases of this stuff!!!!
For more information on life-threatening allergies visit these sites:
If you are like us and you have a child with a severe food allergy, you might be surprised to find out that one of the BEST places to take your child on vacation is to Disney World. The reason I say that is this. Disney has a dining plan available if you are staying at a Disney resort or are a member of the vacation club. You can let the customer specialist know that you or your family member has a specific food allergy, they will then alert the staff at the restaurant you want to go to, the chef will come out and talk with you and your child and they will create a special, allergen-free meal for the allergy sufferer! Totally cool!
Edit: 9-27
Sometimes no news is good news… not this time. We had an incident with Julie and some peanut contaminated food this week, I think it scared me more than it scared her. Julie has a slow onset with her allergy, so when she started reacting within 5-10 minutes, I was understandably worried. After visiting her doc on Friday, we found out that the diarheea she had been having was directly related to the anaphilaxis. NOT fun. The Doc put her on steriods (more than she has ever had before) and then he dropped the bomb.
He told me that the next reaction she has will likely be catastrophic because she reacted so quickly this last time. He told me not to be at all afraid to use her EpiPen and to “jab and gab.” Meaning that he wants me to use the Epi and call 911 immediately, not to bother with the benadryl, unless it is handy. Scary stuff!
