P + E
Written by beeber on September 30, 2007 – 9:01 pm -The letter P and E are not our friends for the past 10 days and probably won’t for a long time.
It all starts with the letter p for peanut. According to day care, anZel took and ate a piece of peanut butter sandwich from one of his teachers. He threw up and developed a pretty serious allergic reaction on the date he turned 17 month. When dAd went to pick him up, his face was beet red, his neck was swollen. When dAd asked where he hurt, he pointed at his neck. Enter e for emergency room. We were there until 7 at night. Although anZel charmed all the nurses at the emergency room, we were exhausted.
When I talked to the day care owner after this incident, she asked if I have seen this food allergy before. I said because we knew he is allergic to peanut from blood test, we have ZERO peanuts at home and have no interest in finding out how he would react to it.
On Friday, I received a call from day care around 12:50 pm. The day care owner told me that anZel was turning kind of red after having a piece of “butter” cookie as a snack. She said she only gave him a “butter” cookie. Then he threw up and became red. Since we have the result of anZel blood test, I read every single food label in my shopping cart, including the fine print! With all the processed food, you can’t really believe the 30 points font size words of the manufacturer claims. I could care less if it says “butter” cookie because it could be made of peanut or tree bark. When I arrived, I asked to see the label of where the cookie is made off. She handed me a big tin can with Chinese writings and said, “I gave him these.”
Ten days ago, when it happened for the first time. I chalked it as a live and learn experience. When this happened the second time, I feel like we are dealing with a ticking time bomb…
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October 1st, 2007 at 10:51 am
April was allergic to peanut also at Anzel’s age. My daycare lady who has been told mistakenly gave April a small bag of Ritz peanut butter cookie. She wanted to give her the cheese one but she didn’t double check at the end. When April handed her the empty plastic bag, she knew she made a mistake. April’s entire body was red for 2-3 days, though no swelling and no itchiness. We didn’t go to ER either. That only happend once and never happened again. Peanut is a serious allergy, our allergist told us, we better take it seriously, if not it’s a lift time pain. We are so grateful, April tested negative the following year, total exclusion help the body system to adjust. Good luck to Anzel and you 2, fighting the allergy war.
October 1st, 2007 at 10:55 am
Actually I am a little curious why your daycare lady asked you whether you’ve seen that kind of food allergy. I thought licensed daycare should have those knowledge and awareness. Though I can see Chinese daycare may take certain things for granted. It is quite rare in China/HK that kids has peanut allergy.