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Forum Name: Reflux and Allergy Support
Forum Description: Struggling with a refluxy baby? Looking for tips to deal with allergies? Share your experiences here.
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Topic: Other family members
Posted By: busymum
Subject: Other family members
Date Posted: 13 June 2008 at 8:25pm
I'm interested to hear your POVs re other family members in a family where there is an interolance/allergy. And how do you approach family meals etc? Who in your household is on the diet?

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Posted By: Maya
Date Posted: 13 June 2008 at 8:50pm
In our house it was just Maya, altho I tended to cook family meals that didn't include her allergens so no cauli cheese or bacon and egg pie etc. But I still had milk on my cereal, ate biscuits with milk in etc. I just made sure I kept them out of her reach.

The only thing we categorically do NOT have in the house is peanut products, I used to buy peanut butter but I once caught Maya with an empty jar she had fished out of the rubbish bag and it freaked me out way too much so we've had a peanut free house ever since.

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Maya Grace (28/02/03)
(02/01/06)
The Gremlins:Sienna Marie & Mercedes Kailah (14/10/06)
Lil miss:Chiara Louise Chloe (09/07/08)
Her ladyship:Rosalia Sophie Anais (18/06/12)


Posted By: cuppatea
Date Posted: 13 June 2008 at 9:01pm
Just Spencer here and mostly at the moment I cook him seperate stuff to us, although partly that is because he has dinner at 5 and we don't normally eat till later. Later on when we start having family meals sat at the table then I expect that DH and me will have to go on to the same diet as Spencer, he already knows now if we are eating something different to him and then he wants ours and not his.
We will just crack out the ice cream after he's gone to bed

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Posted By: mummy_becks
Date Posted: 13 June 2008 at 9:09pm

Josh has oats issues so we just don't have anything with them in it now. I know there are some rolled oats in the pantry but they are sealed a few times so if Josh did get into the container it would take him a while to get right into them.

I do miss ANZAC biscuits.



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I was a puree feeder, forward facing, cot sleeping, pram pushing kind of Mum... and my kids survived!


Posted By: Kellz
Date Posted: 14 June 2008 at 8:01am
I still make seperate dinners for Isla, or if she can she has the 'safe' part of whatever we have for dinner. Our pantry is locked so she cant help herself, and only Isla-safe foods are on the bottom shelves that she can reach anyway.


Posted By: aimeejoy
Date Posted: 14 June 2008 at 8:49am
We have an egg, cheese and nut free house. I have milk for me and occassionally we will have chocolate or something she cant have but that gets hidden and eaten when she is in bed. Its just easier and less stressful that way. Though if it wasnt life threatening I would probably be a bit more relaxed about it.

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Aimee

Hannah 22/10/05
Greer 11/02/08


Posted By: Andie
Date Posted: 14 June 2008 at 11:22am

We're not a dairy-free house here, as I have milk in my coffee and DH can't bear to live without his milk and butter.  Since I needed to go dairy-free for breastfeeding Ella, it isn't not incomprehensible for me to do it again.  Ella can't open our fridge and the only shelves she can reach in the pantry are hers anyway.  That'll change soon, I'm sure.  But there's some items I'll only ever choose 'safe' brands of already- hot choc, chocolate (though she's only had 2 pieces in her life, but wow did she think they were amazing!), sandwich spreads, breads, pasta, sausages, crackers, etc.  I cook dairy-free dinners now, because making 2 dinners every night was wearing thin, and Ella started really wanting the foods off our plates.  It limits our meals only a little, but I'm a bit of alright in the kitchen so it doesn't matter!   We don't put cheese on any meals unless I'm having lunch while she's asleep.  I bake with dairy for DH, and without for Ella, of course, but DH's choc muffin supply is out of Ella's reach.  We're at the point now where Ella wants to at least taste what she sees others eating, so I carry her wee biscuits & crackers for when a friend breaks out their supply leaving Ella sobbing "bickie, bickie" for a taste.  Oh yeah - and as you've seen, I take a muffin of hers and her chippies, etc along at any birthday parties she goes to, and if there's fruit or jelly at the party, she can eat those, other than that - it's not worth the risk. 



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Andie


Posted By: busymum
Date Posted: 14 June 2008 at 12:27pm
And then she helps herself while you take photos of other people's kids, eh Andie?

Thanks all!

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Posted By: Andie
Date Posted: 14 June 2008 at 1:20pm

Ah yes, the sneaky grab'n'snack attempts.  One day she'll understand!  I meant to say too, (and I could be wrong on this, because I don't know intolerances as well as allergies for sure), I didn't want to freak you out about the 'may contain traces of...' labels - my understanding is that those are still fine to eat if your intolerance isn't extreme (like bleeding stomach or bowel, constant vomiting, fainting from pain, that sort of thing).  It's completely up to you how strict you want to be since it's your body, so you gotta weigh up the effects on your lifestyle of 100% avoidance, taking no chances, versus avoiding gluten-rich foods - if either lifestyle leaves you with similar health, then it certainly is kinder to your nerves and time to just cut out the ones you know are culprits! 



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Andie


Posted By: busymum
Date Posted: 14 June 2008 at 8:23pm
Ah no worries... if I feel stink after, no more of that food! is pretty much my rule of thumb at the moment. Otherwise I'd be eating something like...um... not even rice (that's the worst I can think of right now) because it can be grown next to wheat fields... for the rest of my life and nothing else!

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Posted By: Jennz
Date Posted: 17 June 2008 at 6:20am
We are a totally egg and peanut free house. Since her egg allergy is only mild we do have the odd thing that 'may contain traces of egg' or is 'made on a line...blah blah blah'. I find it just easier and less stressful that way.

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Jen, Charlotte 7 & Kate 3




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