Hi from Alex\'s mom

Hi Susan.

My husband often thought I was overly paranoid about what our peanut allergic daughter ate. She was diagnosed PA using a RAST at 3 1/2 and since she had never been hospitalized my husband did not feel that her allergy was life threatiening. This year at 4 1/2 our daughter had 2 trips to the ER, the first I used the Epi and drove her. The second time we had just learned that there were additional food allergies, soy, peas, all tree nuts, and coconut. I was unsure of using the Epi as it did not appear to be food related so I gave her other meds for allergies and asthma, they did not seem to work, so the doctors office told me to call 911. By the time they arrived the medications seemed to be working. The second trip was later at night and my husband had to pick us up. He listened to the doctor say that I did the right things and that it just took a long time for the meds to work. My husbands reaction was "So next time we wait longer to give the meds time to work".

The doctors response to him was "no". He went on to tell us that you cannot take that chance. You never know which reaction is the one that is taking a long time to respond and which is the one that will just take a sudden turn for the worst. Now my husband has been the one to suggest that we take our daughter to the ER. We didn't, she had a bad case of gas. Turns out that she develpoed an intollerance to milk!

Sorry to have rambled, but thanks for listening.

Mary Lynn