How can I keep her safe?

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My dd had a reaction last night from airborn pecans. She is scared to go anywhere. How can I keep her safe with contact and airborn PA/TN? She said put her in a bubble but that won't work!

Connie

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Connie,

Ask your daughter's allergist if she should be taking antihistamine before you go somewhere where there is potential for airborne/contact exposure.

Just my only thought, especially if this is happening too often.

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Well... even if you can't keep her in a bubble forever you might give yourself a little break by keeping her in a bubble for a couple of days. YOu guys have just found out about a bunch of new allergies and I know that when you get that news it's hard to adjust. DH and I are still struggling daily with issues like whether or not to eat foods that ds can't have, how clean is clean enough, etc. Going out in public is a big stress factor. We decided that for our own sanity we just wouldn't deal with it for awhile. We took ds to his grandparents for the first time since he was diagnosed tonight and I was a nervous wreck. I look at a table and remember that it probably had a bag of nuts on it at Christmas, or ds reaches for an empty candy dish that probably had candies in it at Easter, ACK!

So basically, we've started small- working with the home environment and working our way out from there.

Hope your dd is all right.

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DD is on antihisamines everyday to help with airborne contact. I think I will just start keeping her at home. I need to go to town this week, (we live 30 miles from town) last week she stayed with Gramma and I think she will do that this week also.
I did talk to the paper here and they are writing a artitcle and run it the week of May 5. I am hoping that educating the public will help.
Thanks for the support!
Connie

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