Halloween is always a fun holiday for children with food allergies and their parents. (I hope you catch my sarcasm.) Tyler is beginning to understand that he can't eat most of his Trick-or-Treat candy because it has "bad milk" in it - but that doesn't necessarily make it any easier for us.
Our church Halloween party was a couple weeks ago & included Trick-or-Treating. Tyler was pretty good about asking which candies he could eat. He gave a tootsie pop to Grandma, Grandpa, Jeff & me since he couldn't eat them himself. I ate my tootsie pop that night & my parents took theirs home with them. Jeff, not a huge candy eater, left his on the counter. Well, a couple days later, I came out of the bathroom & Tyler told me, "Mommy, I ate that sucker I gave to Daddy." I couldn't believe it! Those aren't just made on shared equipment with milk! They actually contain whey and condensed skim milk! I hurried & gave him Benadryl. Then I called Jeff at work & told him to be prepared to meet us at the Emergency Room. Amazingly enough, Tyler didn't have a reaction to the milk in the tootsie pop! He didn't even get hives! I'm hoping that means that he's beginning to outgrow his allergy - either that, or I gave him the Benadryl fast enough. Who knows? I know I shouldn't get my hopes up. Especially since he had hives all over his face and neck at the end of church on Sunday. But this is a really good sign & I hope that his next blood test will show some improvement. In the meantime, we just have to survive Halloween this Friday & I think we'll be OK.
*An added note after the questions in Krista's comment:
Tyler did eat the entire tootsie pop, but it was one of those mini-sized tootsie pops. I found the wrapper on the counter & I dug through the trash to find the stick, because I wanted to see if he'd really eaten the whole thing. It took a while to find the stick because it fell into the bag from our frozen burritos. There was no candy left on the stick & I could see the different colors on the stick from the sucker part & the chocolate part. He really did eat the whole thing. I asked him if he liked it & with a great big smile he said, "Yeah, it was good." And now, we just got home from being out & about and Tyler had horrible blistered hives all over his face & neck. So I had to give him a bath & Benadryl. I wonder what he touched!?! Maybe we were just really, really blessed last week when Tyler ate the Tootsie Pop. Heavenly Father was protecting him when I wasn't there doing my job.
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Did you actually see the empty sucker stick? Did he eat the whole thing? If so that is amazing, because the soap even effected him. But that is great. I really hope he grows out of it, it would be so nice for his future.
It is horrible have a kid with food allergies. I am so glad that nothing happened to Tyler. Sometimes the really processed things don't cause the same severe reactions. I hope that he will outgrow his allergy or at least have less severe reactions as he grows. That is scary.
Before Jackson outgrew his peanut allergy, I remember thinking that I would have to "plant" candy up and down our street so he could be part of the festivities.
Halloween stinks for food allergy kids!
I'm glad Tyler was okay. I can imagine how stressful that would be!
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