Peanut Allergy

Ottavia has a peanut allergy..if you are a parent with a child who has a food allergy, you will be nodding your head during this whole post!! :)

Ottavia's allergy is our issue, nobody else's, but that being said, we stay away from dangerous or risky situations, for ex. playdates with peanut butter cookies, or birthday parties that will have any nuts etc. Some people are very respectfull of this and other's are so not. Its interesting to see the reactions we get, and the question's we get asked! Some people think I'm over reacting, but they also don't understand what would happen or what will happen if Ottavia gets a teeny amount of peanut oil on a mucus membrane being her eye's, nose or mouth.

The reason this come's up is because are flying American Airways to florida and they serve peanuts..mmmhmmmm..americans are ass backwards and its crazy that people still serve nuts but non the less we are very prepared and this momma will pre board and wipe our area Friedel Clean!

People who love us the most do respect the situation. We are going to Regina for Easter so I asked everyone to only do peanut free chocolate..its only fair..Ottavia is 2, she doesn't know the difference..plus..she is only 2..does a 2 year old really need chocolate??

Here are some questions and comments people ask and things people have said to us!!

Is it severe??

I don't know why people ask this question, because there is no severe or non severe. You are either allergic or not. I once had a lady say to me, oh my son is allergic to apples so when we have apple pie we just scoop them out...Really???

A little bit won't hurt right? it can't be that bad...

ummmm....okay mother of the 70's, you also put your baby in a crib with a bottle of milk...a little bit can KILL HER...she could DIE.....yes DIE....

Another thing someone said to me at christmas time was...." there is only a 1/2 cup of peanut butter in those cookies so her reaction won't be that bad......hahahah...that just makes me laugh.

Here is a picture of her epipen. Thank god we haven't needed to use this. Infact we just got 6 new one's so we were able to practise with an orange and it was a good thing because it took Tino 2 tries to get it right :)

We don't live our life in fear, but we are definilty aware and careful of the situation and we quickly remove ourselves from any risk. I just wish people would get it..its not like a peanut allergy is something new, its so commen and its actually an easy one to control.

So if you are a non allergy believer...just think, its a life threatening condition that is controlable! And if you have ever witnessed anaphlaxis..its so scary. I've seen 2 in my time. Working the CT scanner we inject contrast and people can be allergic. In the 2 anaphlastic reactions i've seen, 1 patient died, and the other went to ICU on life support..so take that!! Its serious!