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bestcee

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We are blessed not to have any food allergies in our house. I do have a slight fish intolerance, so I avoid it. I am allergic to formaldehyde, so embalming might get interesting!

A few of our new friends are allergic to nuts (tree and the other kind), and 2 are allergic to eggs. I never noticed how much I use egg in baking until now! Seriously, all my cookie recipes save 1 have eggs!

So, since it's baking season, and misery loves company, what are your allergies?
 
me, DH and kids - none;
extended family & friends, like everything - 1 allergy/intolerance/food avoidance per person that doesnt overlap so really i can't just bring one dish for 'bring a plate' (i think overseas it's called 'potluck') of anything that everyone can eat

(when we cook vegan stuff for some family and have to substitute out eggs, we usually use apple sauce but there's a whole list somewhere on pinterest that might help you @bestcee https://au.pinterest.com/pin/241998179956763198/ )
 
We do "flax egg" for many things, like pancakes, sugar cookies, cakes, etc. (water and ground flax)

Dairy, egg, and peanuts just for my daughter in this house. I am lactose intolerant, so I largely avoid dairy.

K has been allergic since infancy, and we found out when we tried supplementing breast milk with formula, and confirmed when we started giving her solid foods. We were certain of milk, but didn't know about egg until she was two. She is more allergic to egg than she is peanuts or dairy. While we've thankfully never needed to use them, we do have to get Epipens for her....

Anyway, because she is allergic, certain things are just bypassed in this house. Butter... we only have "Kaydee butter" (a non-dairy kind). we can only have certain flavors of packaged foods, like hamburger helper, pop tarts, cereals...
We do "vegan mac" for Mac n "cheese" (it uses cashews and veggies to make a cheese sauce). We make "kaydee pizza" at home without cheese... though one restaurant we know of serves the Daiya vegan cheese as an option. When we make PB&J for anyone else, we have to use two different knives to make sure the peanut butter doesn't get into the jelly jar (she has almond butter). little things like that...

And here's one layout I've done about them.

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Wow. sorry for my novel. lol!!!
 
DH, the boys and myself aren't affected by allergies, but DH and the oldest don't always tolerate dairy. So, I limit my dairy cooking. This is hard... I'm a cheese addict! :giggle
 
we all have pollen allergies and dd is somewhat lactose intolerant and allergic to kiwi friut
 
We are very fortunate to not have any food allergies in our house. I suspect my oldest son has seasonal pollen type allergies, but that's pretty mild so far. We have had several years where students at school have had nut allergies or honey allergies, so we have to pay attention to what we can bring in for treats, but right now we don't even have any special requirements even at school.
 
No major allergies - my daughter has a tendency to get an itchy/tingly tongue with certain nuts though. So we watch it.

It's more the vegetarian choice that prevents us from eating or using a lot of things here. My DD will not eat meat or eggs - so the baking is really hard. We do the "flax egg" here too. And try to do the vegan cooking as much as possible. We were hard core for 2 years ... but it's slipped a little. Cheese is too yummy.
 
I was introduced to the world of food allergies in 2004. Near the beginning of the year, when my daughter Caroline was 3 months old, she broke out in eczema and throughout most of that year she had one of the worst cases of eczema all over her body that any of the many healthcare providers we brought her to had seen. Finally in her second year we discovered all her weird allergens (it was quite a long list) and her eczema never returned . . . until about a year ago, when she had a minor flare-up.

Last summer she successfully challenged peanuts in the allergist's office so we've determined she is no longer allergic to them. Her allergist also said her tree nut RAST scores are so low she's probably no longer allergic to them either, but she has yet to get around to trialing them. He said she can just do that at home. She's not nervous but just not interested in them! Not even the yummy cashew milk flavors I've found! She doesn't even care much for peanuts and has asked me to continue buying her sunflower butter.

So her current list of allergies is: milk, wheat, chickpea, sesame, buckwheat, barley, and quinoa. Although she has never actually had any of those that we know of, so it's all based on test scores . . . except milk and chickpea or sesame. She has come into contact with dairy a few times -- including once when she was 7 and mindlessly bit into her friend's ice cream pop -- and it always results in hives, welts, puffiness, runny nose. That's why she carries an epi pen around everywhere she goes. And once she got some hummus on her arm and got a welt there. She had RAST scores for both chickpea and sesame by that time, so either or both of those is verified. The last three things on the list I wonder whether they even need to be there because we haven't tested them again in many years.

No one else in my family, not even my extended family, has food allergies. However, my grandma had very bad asthma from childhood, and several family members have environmental allergies.

I have to avoid dairy since breastfeeding Caroline for 2.5 years, which meant eliminating her allergens. That was long enough for me to lose the ability to easily digest lactose. I didn't mind for the most part because there are some good dairy alternatives but it did take me a year or two after she weaned to completely give up on trying to eat pizza. LOL
 
No food allergies, other than I'm sensitive to eggs . . . they just don't like me! LOL I still eat them from time to time anyway. When they're in foods, like baking, no problem, it's just by themselves, scrambled, fried, or boiled, that I have issues.

We **do** have seasonal allergies, which is to say, every season, we have allergies. Daniel is the worst of us, always sneezing and coughing. We all take daily allergy meds.
 
Oh gosh, all 4 of us have something. The boys & I take zyrtec every day. Hubby takes Allegra. I'm the only one with a food allergy & it's ridiculous--red onions. I carry an epi-pen for it. 3 of us have inhalers & can't be around smoke. 8yr old is allergic to bees. He also knows to watch his dairy intake, if he goes overboard he throws up. He's so good about it though. We just found out both boys are allergic to dogs. We went to a scout meeting & the den leader had a dog. Poor boys had runny noses, coughs, & red raccoon eyes. I felt so bad for them.
 
No food allergies here, thank goodness! My oldest does have a reaction to shrimp, but it developed in adulthood. We all have mild seasonal allergies and DS had an allergic reaction to a change in fabric softener a few weeks ago, but other than that we are all very fortunate!
 
DH and I are both allergic to cats & him much more than me. We both have outside allergies of some sort & so does DD.

He also has a gluten intolerance (we don't know that it's full-blown celiac) so I've been cooking all of our family meals GF for the past 5 or 6 years. The kids & I eat gluten-y snacks, gluten when we go out to eat, etc. and so far it has not seemed like an issue for the kids. We'll see as they get older.

My sister is lactose intolerant & both DH and my sister have general IBS-like symptoms so family dinner Thursday nights is a bit of a nightmare for my mom when she's trying to think of what to make & how to make it so everyone can eat it.
 
We JUST (like on Monday) did allergy testing for my lil 5 yr old. We knew he has some (cats, seasonal) just from symptoms, but since we ended up spending the night in the children's hospital due to his asthma, his dr rec we do some testing to see if anything is triggering him. Sure enough, he is allergic to everything. Especially furry mammals, dust mites & all pollens. We are crossing our fingers that an air purifier, bedding covers & daily anti-histamines will allow us to keep our dog Lucy & prevent further asthma flares & hospital visits! So sad but obviously we'll do what we have to so he can be healthy! :( I have all those same allergies & am able to survive life on 2x/day zyrtec year round, so we're cautiously optimistic that we can keep our furbaby.

As far as food allergies- we haven't tested him for those yet, but I have just oral allergies (just make my mouth itchy & will never progress to anaphylaxis thankfully) to avocados, corn, walnuts, kiwi & pineapple. I still eat all of those things- just know that my mouth might be itchy! Dr. says it just depends on how much I can handle! ;)
 
@gonewiththewind im a bit like you but with lactose, if it's in baking or more firm like hard cheese i'm ok but if it's milk, yogurt, icecream, soft cheese i have issues. Most of the time i'll avoid the triggers but if it's something I really like i'll have it and know the likely reaction to it
 
I'm not seriously allergic to anything (never had to get shots or EpiPen) but am allergic to dust and mold. So my fave time of year (autumn) is my worst reaction time b/c of the mold outdoors, but I don't care. I happily blow my nose, wipe my runny eyes and suffer through the headaches (which aren't that bad) b/c I looooove fall and nothing will stop me from getting outdoors and enjoying it. I used to get worse and worse as the days went by once we put up a real tree so eventually stopped that about 10 years ago and switched to a fake tree.

Food allergies/sensitivities are frustrating. I am allergic to corn but eat it anyway b/c I love popcorn but too much will make me feel sick and I'll get stuffy and headachy. I can't handle gluten anymore either. I get nasty bathroom stuff, headache, fatigue, brain fog, stomach pain, bloating, sore inflamed joints and break out in skin rashes. So as much as I love a good donut or hamburger, I stay away from gluten most of the time. If I do indulge, then I have to expect to feel the effects later, but I can tolerate a little bit.

My one daughter has celiac disease and my other daughter just went off gluten a few days ago and already she is noticing the difference. Weird what food can do to us.
 
I'm allergic to fruit.. or as the doctor suggested the pollen associated with the types of fruit I choose. My 2-yr old cannot have raw dairy milk. My daughter is allergic to tree nuts/peanuts. My husband is allergic is shellfish. Sooo.. a lot of the things I used to enjoy don't exist to me.

My son's allergy is the weirdest because he can have cheese, sour cream, and certain ice cream (M&M ice cream cones) with no reaction. If milk is spilled on him, he immediately breaks out in hives and it was the same when he tried drinking it a few months after he turned one. His whole face was swollen. :(
 
Am I the only who thought this- @bestcee, if you're being embalmed, I don't think you need to worry about your allergy?

We only have seasonal allergies. No foods. Although, I tell restaurant staff I have an allergy to raw onions because I just really can't stand them or anything they touch.
 
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