For my baby daughter, and millions of others with food allergies, nuts can be deadly. Not a bad stomach ache, or a rash, they can kill her. Now that’s not going to happen, but it could. You see a couple weeks ago, we found out she is allergic to eggs and nuts.  She had bad …
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When I was in grammar school, I didn’t know anyone with a life-threatening nut allergy. Today, it seems to have become a far more common occurrence, and different schools have different approaches to handling the kids with the allergies and the foods they’re allergic to. My son, who just started pre-K at a private parochial …
Continue reading Nuts!That girl there, Violette, is mildly allergic to milk. She doesn’t go into shock and her throat doesn’t close. In fact, the only real thing we notice is that she behaves quite differently after having milk products than when she doesn’t. She misbehaves a lot more. She gets a bit more hyper and harder to …
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