What we wish we knew about food allergies before our son nearly died...
On the worst day of our lives, we fed our 7 month old son his first tiny bite of egg and it nearly killed him. We started very slow like we were advised to, but he still had anaphylaxis, the most severe allergic reaction that could result in death. Afterwards we found out he has life threatening allergies to egg, peanut, milk, wheat, and more. Since then we've learned so much about food allergies, and we realize how unprepared we were to deal with a life threatening allergic reaction. We both don't have any food allergies and we were so uninformed on the topic before we witnessed anaphylaxis first hand. We have heard of food allergies, but we just didn't know that taking a bite of EGG could kill, or that eating something as common as WHEAT and MILK could kill. Looking back, it's unbelievable to us that we aren't guided and educated more about this topic as new parents, especially since approximately 1 OUT OF 13 children has some form of food allergies. Before