Party prepping for a child with allergies.

My son has a lot of friends around his age which for the lucky little man mean a fair few birthday parties! He just attended his sixth birthday party for this year already! With all his intolerance's and his allergy that was tested last week, birthday parties can be fairly tricky! And my poor son has to of course miss out on the birthday cake, and sometimes he can't have any snacks to. So the last two parties I decided that after asking the host's, we will bring some party snacks ourselves for Jydan and a little cupcake or something when everyone is having cake. I have the most delicious allergy free cake recipe I will share.

Gluten, Dairy & Egg free chocolate covered biscuits, banana chips & Dairy & Gluten free Fairy bread.


But what I didn't think about is the party bags! Full of egg lollies, left him with a couple of jelly lollies and a balloon. Not that we make a habit of giving him lollies anyway, but it just made me realise that I have to organise some lolly bag treats to swap over!

How egg aware are you? Did you know all these, but the oreo's that he couldn't have anyway, contain egg?

Next one of Jydan's friends parties, I will have a little goodie bag of allergy friendly treats.

Here are some ideas of what you can put in your allergy child's take with you goodie bag;
-Organic Popcorn.
-Banana Chips.
-Allergy Friendly Cookies.
-Organic Honey Lollipops.
-Allergy Free Muesli Bars
-Allergy Free Truffles.
-Rice Cakes.
-Balloons.
-Play-Doh.
-Stickers.
-Crayons.

Do you have anymore ideas on what we can add?

Research is finding too, those with dairy intolerance's are often intolerant to glucose as well, something to look out for!

Allergies - 18 Months.

I am mainly writing this post so I have a record of how all his allergy and intolerance's are going.

I have been needing to get Jydan allergy tested for a while now, but for a few reasons I have put it off. . His age & I was also hoping that I was just being an over cautious Mum, and he wasn't really allergic to anything. After reacting three times to egg in the last year we cut it completely out of his diet & the house anyway.

Today was testing day, and my little man did extremely well. He coped with it all fabulously, besides wanting to scratch his arm so badly and being there for two hours!! Besides, he loved being the center of the nurse's attention.

They placed a stamp on his arm so they can record what he was allergic to, tested him with eleven allergens and against histamine. They did a little prick on each allergen so they went into his skin and we waited 15 minutes to see what came up. Within a minute you could tell he was allergic to egg and within 4 minutes where they tested for egg was red with hives. Luckily though it wasn't a severe reaction and he doesn't need an epi-pen. We have to go back in six month to retest eggs & see how it goes again.

He only reacted to egg, and not dairy, berries and wheat, which means dairy, berries & wheat are just an intolerance, which is great! But he still can't have them. Especially dairy (we are finding he has mostly grown out of the berry intolerance and is growing out of the wheat intolerance. Dairy seems just as bad, if not worse).

We spoke to the specialist doctor afterwards and got the low-down on egg allergies and reassured again that he doesn't have a severe allergy, however, he does have an egg allergy. He has an action plan for us to keep and give to those who look after him. She also wants to see him back in a month to see how his eczema & bowels are going. She isn't happy with how either are going.

I am so grateful that it isn't epi-pen seriousness and that the other things he has trouble with are just intolerance's, but sad that he has this allergy! We are hopeful that he will grow out of it.