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When Food Can Kill You: Coping With Severe Food Allergies | National Geographic


morning it is not a terminal illness
that my child has but it is an every day
every second every moment the unknown of
everyday he could possibly die and we
have no clue when it’s gonna happen
sometimes but but if we’re prepared
we’re continuing on his life
who here is allergic to peanuts seafood
all treatments shellfish Kiwis cucumbers
sesame peas chickpeas lentils lima beans
he used to be allergic to eggs which he
outgrew is there anything else that I’m
missing and coconut it’s ever-changing
and that’s the guessing game that I
don’t like some people don’t believe
that food allergies are real at all a
lot of people think that they should be
able to give their kids whatever foods
they want and send them off to school
with as much peanut butter as much tree
nuts what they don’t understand is
they’re putting a child life at risk he
could be on a playground and somebody
could have peanut butter and jelly
sandwich keep going the same monkey bars
and then he could go ahead and like pick
his nose or wipe his lip and he could
have a reaction this is why is being in
school is so crazy too because they’re
using the Santa keyboards they’re
opening the same box it’s the unknown
that’s really scary
Oh big open one done one time there are
a lot of theories of my allergies been
increasing and probably many of them
have contributed to the most popular one
that’s out there is called the hygiene
theory and the hygiene theory says that
we live in to clean and environment and
that if you’re not exposed to enough in
a way of germs or bacteria or infections
early in life your immune system will
not be kept busy and will focus on
things like allergy so there’s all these
theories of why and that’s what I used
to focus on why this is happening I also
felt like what did I do during my
pregnancy that increased his chances of
having food allergies so there’s a lot
of mom guilt too but now I’m just like
we just have to deal with it because
there’s no solving it just yet
you have to plan for your food allergy
every day every meal every snack but
what the ingredients of that food are
the second big piece of it that runs
your life is you have to be ready for
that accidental exposure that accidental
reaction and one of the real scary
things you never know what the next
reaction will look like he ate half a
cashew and immediately within five
minutes my son was turning blue he has
to know how to stand up for himself keep
himself safe so it’s a combination of
physical and emotional stuff we go
through on a regular basis so he is
prepared I would do two all
all of those things that any young
beautiful child adolescent teenager
adult wants to do when he has his first
kiss wanting to travel the world go to
college and become an independent person
watching that all of those things for
him are gonna come with some sense of
responsibility for food allergies but if
we raise a child who’s confident and
happy with himself hopefully he’ll be
just fine with coating every man who has
a dream of have a child dream of a child
like Caesar
look at him
and you just say I cannot believe he’s
sick
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