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Article: Food Allergies: Better Safe Than Sorry; Millions of Kids Watch What They Eat
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- December 15, 2005
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What if you couldn't eat a Hershey's bar, a frozen yogurt cone, a
fried shrimp or a peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwich?
Eating one bite of any of those things would make Caroline
Crawford, 9, of Bethesda really sick. She is allergic to nuts,
shellfish, eggs, milk and other dairy products.
Caroline found out two years ago just how sick she would get, when
she accidentally took a sip of her brother's milk, thinking she was
reaching for her glass of safe-to-drink rice milk.
"I started feeling bad -- my stomach was queasy, I got hives, my
throat started closing. It was really scary," Caroline said. "Ever
been pushed under water? It feels like that."
Caroline's mom gave her a shot of medicine ...