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August just slipped through my fingers, I'm still in a bit of denial about driving two kids to school every morning now. Jack, the 2 year old, has registered his protest about sitting in the 5 point harness for 45 minutes each day. I have a feeling he is going to chub up quite a bit this year, I just keep chucking food back at him.
Speaking of which, I went to the health food store to stock up on some treats and supplies and came away just narrowly missing our 4th ER visit in a year for little Jack (the first three visits were for a prolonged febrile seizure, anaphylaxis after his first sip of cow's milk and a head laceration...when we go, we go big).
The culprit this time was an apparently benign box of Enjoy Life Caramel Apple cookies. You know Enjoy Life, right? "Eat-freely, allergy-friendly, gluten-free and free of the 8 most common allergens." Well, I guess we've moved beyond the top 8.
He was squawking, I grabbed the box off the shelf, opened it and gave him one so I could go on reading labels in peace. He coughed, I looked up and thought I should read the box...sunflower butter....hmm. Well, he's had sunflower oil before, our other allergic kid eats Sunbutter without a problem. I took the cookie away anyway and gave him some gluten free pretzels to calm his crying, sending up a quick prayer, "Come on Lord, give me a little break here, let us have sunflower seeds."
Apparently, we don't get many breaks around here. Fortunately, this resolved after 4 hours with just some Benadryl and driving around in that air-conditioned 5 point harness car seat to keep him from scratching his skin off.
His forehead laceration is still healing for crying out loud!
5 comments:
Oh! We had the same thing here. Sunbutter was our life saver, our saving grace when it came to sandwiches, cookie recipes, treats. Then we found that our youngest, who just turned 3, is allergic to sunflower protein like our middle one is allergic to peanuts.
(I did a little begging and pleading with the Lord as well, but no breaks.)
We still eat chips cooked in sunflower oil, but have been admonished by our allergist to give those up....
I'm sorry.
I am glad his reaction didn't go any further. Its always scary when you give them something new.
Is his skin just broken out in hives? or does he have eczema? My sons skin looks very similar to your sons....all the time. :(
Well that sucks!
So glad you are back to blogging though. Our peanut, tree nut, dairy, egg, and mostly legume free home loooves trying your recipes.
Glad you were able to avoid the ED. We do pea butter all the way...I'm too scared to try Sunbutter.
My son looked that that after he was given yogurt for the first time. So scary! I am glad the Benedryl worked. Who would have thought something in an Enjoy Life Product would do that? Wow!
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