Educate your child and the other people in your life about child's food allergies. This is a very important one. Please talk freely and openly to your child about food allergies. This is something they're going to be living with for the rest of their lives. Talk to your allergist that is potential for your child to outgrow their food allergies. But the point, since they're going to be living with for the rest of their lives, start preparing them for how to take care of themselves in an age-appropriate way.
Now one of the things that we've all seen in the news is children accidentally being exposed to the thing that they're allergic to - it makes headlines. One thing is interesting that many of those children are slightly older children. It's really interesting. If you really pay attention to the headlines, you might also notice that these are middle-school and high school age kids which are the ones that are making these headlines about having a tragic result related to their food allergies. So you must know how to protect your children and others from allergy. And i think this article is best for that.
We really don't have any idea, thus I wonder if we start to educate our food allergic children about their allergies and how to take care of themselves when they are tiny, might they possibly be better at handling their food allergies and managing their lives as they get older and, they're away from us in school or with friends or eventually at college? They need to know about it so that they can keep themselves safe. So it needs to be done in an age-appropriate way. When our daughter was very young that she could read was "peanut" and that's because every time we were in the grocery store you would talk about, "that's safe for you, that's not safe for you, that's safe for you, that's not safe for you" and then I would show her on the label.
Now, you should teach people in your life. So we're talking about immediate family, extended family - aunts and uncles, cousins, grandparents, and babysitters, teachers, camp counselors, friends, and the parents of your children's friends. Now it's important to make sure that everyone in your life is aware that your child has got a food allergy. If they don't know, then it's impossible for them to step in and help in the event of an emergency.
So you've got a new duty as a parent. You have to make sure that you are letting everybody know that this is an issue with your child. "We don't want to burden you with this but this is just something we have to let you know. So that you can look out for any symptoms that might be out of the ordinary, now if you're leaving your child in the care of someone else, such as on a play date, or with a babysitter, or the grandparents are coming over and staying for the night so that you can go out, you need to teach them.
Something interesting that you might consider doing with your child's teacher is demonstrating for them using one of your expired EpiPens. You can take an orange into the classroom - set up a time that's convenient for the teacher - take an orange and an expired EpiPen and actually demonstrate for them with real medicine how it works. when your child is spending time away from you Don't take a risk with food either at someone else's house or food at the school. And teach your child that they need to eat what you pack for them. Now the other thing we wanted to mention to you with regard to food is something that makes most parents of food allergic children, makes their skin crawl, and that is THE CLASS PARTY, and birthdays being celebrated in the classroom. Believe us, we understand something about this.
Now we have found that the best way to get around the dangers with food being served at a class party is to either send your child with their own food that they can enjoy while then you can be in charge of brining in the food and you and your child will both know that all the food that is in the classroom is safe for your child to eat as well. So that probably just about wraps us up for our Checklist Item 2, and again, as you'll notice, there's kind of a theme running through here and it's educating yourself and educating your child and other people, and you do that through open communication.
Now one of the things that we've all seen in the news is children accidentally being exposed to the thing that they're allergic to - it makes headlines. One thing is interesting that many of those children are slightly older children. It's really interesting. If you really pay attention to the headlines, you might also notice that these are middle-school and high school age kids which are the ones that are making these headlines about having a tragic result related to their food allergies. So you must know how to protect your children and others from allergy. And i think this article is best for that.
We really don't have any idea, thus I wonder if we start to educate our food allergic children about their allergies and how to take care of themselves when they are tiny, might they possibly be better at handling their food allergies and managing their lives as they get older and, they're away from us in school or with friends or eventually at college? They need to know about it so that they can keep themselves safe. So it needs to be done in an age-appropriate way. When our daughter was very young that she could read was "peanut" and that's because every time we were in the grocery store you would talk about, "that's safe for you, that's not safe for you, that's safe for you, that's not safe for you" and then I would show her on the label.
Now, you should teach people in your life. So we're talking about immediate family, extended family - aunts and uncles, cousins, grandparents, and babysitters, teachers, camp counselors, friends, and the parents of your children's friends. Now it's important to make sure that everyone in your life is aware that your child has got a food allergy. If they don't know, then it's impossible for them to step in and help in the event of an emergency.
So you've got a new duty as a parent. You have to make sure that you are letting everybody know that this is an issue with your child. "We don't want to burden you with this but this is just something we have to let you know. So that you can look out for any symptoms that might be out of the ordinary, now if you're leaving your child in the care of someone else, such as on a play date, or with a babysitter, or the grandparents are coming over and staying for the night so that you can go out, you need to teach them.
Something interesting that you might consider doing with your child's teacher is demonstrating for them using one of your expired EpiPens. You can take an orange into the classroom - set up a time that's convenient for the teacher - take an orange and an expired EpiPen and actually demonstrate for them with real medicine how it works. when your child is spending time away from you Don't take a risk with food either at someone else's house or food at the school. And teach your child that they need to eat what you pack for them. Now the other thing we wanted to mention to you with regard to food is something that makes most parents of food allergic children, makes their skin crawl, and that is THE CLASS PARTY, and birthdays being celebrated in the classroom. Believe us, we understand something about this.
Now we have found that the best way to get around the dangers with food being served at a class party is to either send your child with their own food that they can enjoy while then you can be in charge of brining in the food and you and your child will both know that all the food that is in the classroom is safe for your child to eat as well. So that probably just about wraps us up for our Checklist Item 2, and again, as you'll notice, there's kind of a theme running through here and it's educating yourself and educating your child and other people, and you do that through open communication.