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Article: With food allergies, children most at risk, and cases appear to be rising.
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- October 13, 2006
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Byline: Karen Herzog
MILWAUKEE _ When Colleen Pfaff was a toddler, her father forgot to wash his hands after handling blue cheese for a salad, and lifted Colleen into the tub to give her a bath.
Hand-shaped welts immediately appeared on Colleen's body. Her immune system had reacted to milk protein still on his hands.
The welts subsided after washing with soap and water. But it was a painful lesson in how little it can take to trigger an allergic reaction to food.
"My brother-in-law is a doctor," said Colleen's mother, Jane Pfaff of Wauwatosa, Wis. "He said if he hadn't been there that night and seen the welts himself, he never would ...