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Article: Tricky treats Children with peanut allergies can have a hard time at Halloween
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- The Herald News - Joliet (IL)
- Article date:
- October 29, 2004
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Hannah Knapp must be careful when she goes trick or treating. Hannah has a very severe allergy to peanuts and must check all of her candy.
Halloween begins the season of holidays and school parties -- a time of frenzied fun for most children.
But for children with severe peanut allergies, the holiday isn't always a time of light-hearted and carefree enjoyment. Letting just one bite of a peanut-laced candy bar slip into the mouth of a peanut-allergic child can cause problems ranging from hives or watery and swelling eyes to life-threatening anaphylactic shock.
Hannah Knapp of Morris is one of those children. The 9-year-old, second-grader is so seriously allergic to peanuts that her skin will ...