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Article: Severe food allergies can be difficult and dangerous
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- Daily Breeze
- Article date:
- September 25, 2003
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Q: "My 7-year-old son has several food allergies, and yet it's
hard to convince people that I'm not just being overprotective." _ A
MOTHER IN BUFFALO, N.Y.
A: For the vigilant mother of a first-grader with food allergies,
peanuts at a family reception upset her _ and her son wasn't even at
the party. Relatives would see him afterward, though, and she didn't
want any peanut residue to transfer to her son.
"He's that allergic?" one relative asked. The mother recalls
thinking: "What's the big deal about washing your hands as a
precaution?"
What seems obsessive to observers is a way of life to parents of
kids with food allergies: Checking and rechecking ingredients.
Calling manufacturers. ...