Food Allergy Anaphylaxis is real. Us parents of allergy children are NOT over-reacting.
Some parents think that their own kids' rights are being revoked for not being able to bring Peanut Butter sandwiches to school. If putting another child's life in morbid danger is your child's right, I do have a problem with that.
Some kids DO react violently to foods they are allergic to. For C, his allergies are on the borderline of life-threatening. These reactions tend to get aggravated to higher grades of reactions with more exposure to the offending allergen. This picture was taken after he had stablized. Initially he complained of his throat hurting, his lips itching and finally he started crying and repetitively vomiting. It's VERY scary...It's real.
This reaction was to Sunflower seed butter, I've put his normal photos next to them to show you the difference. This is mild compared to some other people's reactions. For some, their entire body swells up because all their body fluids are suddenly leaking into the swellings and they die of aphyxia from the swelling in the lungs+brochial tube & or sudden blood pressure drop/cardiac arrest. It's a horrible way to go.
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