After spending a lot of time looking up information to try and feed my lovely allergy kid, Emma, I decided I would start my own blog where I can share recipes and information in the hope that it might help someone else who is dealing with multiple allergies like us.
Emma has had severe eczema from birth and after much pushing by me we finally got her allergy tested when she was about 18 months. She was only tested for Egg, Dairy and Peanuts and they all came back strongly positive (4+). After two scary nut encounters we made our house completely nut free and Emma became the proud owner of an emergency kit containing an Epi-pen which goes with her where ever she goes. When she was about 4 we finally went to see an allergy specialist (Jan Sinclair) as she still had severe eczema, had developed asthma and had constant stomach pains. Emma's blood was tested for just about everything and just about everything came back positive. Strong allergies to all nuts, egg, dairy, soy, kiwifruit, sesame, shell fish, as well as cats, dogs, dust, pollens. The only good news was that she was fine with cod fish and tuna fish.
All my initial fears had been confirmed, Emma really is allergic to almost everything. We are so greatful that although she tested positive to wheat, a food challenge proved it was okay for her to eat it. But this started my ongoing challenge of how to create wonderful food for my lovely to eat, that everyone else would enjoy as well.
Go Barbs, I'm so pleased you are blogging about this! You've some fantastic recipes and I'm sure through blogging you're gonna be helpful for so many people.
ReplyDeleteLooking forward to reading your blog. My kids were both dairy free - so not as 'challenging' as your Emma's long list, but still caused me a few issues finding easy, yummy food for them. Especially when it came to visiting or kids parties. Now they eat dairy, but I am dairy free as well as quite a few preservatives-free. Muh!! Anyways, hoping to get some inspiration from your blog - no pressure ;)
ReplyDeleteThanks guys. It is a bit daunting starting out on the blogging journey, but I hope my stack of allergy friendly recipes and information can help out others struggling with allergies :-)
ReplyDeleteBarbs, I came to your blog via Lyns. My little boy Rico is 4 months old and is showing signs of allergies. I have allergies to soy, nuts, wheat and tomatoes so am living on a restricted diet as well as avoiding diary. Its a bit of a crazy road the whole allergy thing. Looking forward to reading your recipes and adapting them to our house hold. I have a few good one too that I should share sometime. xxx
ReplyDeleteHi Weza, I hope you will find some new ideas here. Adapting recipes to fit in with the allergies you have is the key to successful food for allergic people. I would love to see your recipes too. :-)
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