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A friend of mine has a two year old daughter who has severe allergies to many different types of foods. I’m not too sure which foods, exactly. But, I’m just wondering if anyone has any good *general* advice on resources, methods, thoughts, etc. for dealing with extreme food allergies?

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jcd offline Verified User (2 years, 2 months) Long Term User Shouts: 1 #
An Unknown Location | 1 year, 7 months ago (6 minutes after post)

Find out exactly what foods she’s allergic to. Take her to the doctor and have her tested. Then keep those foods away from her. Some food allergies can be very dangerous.

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Sasuke Uchiha offline Verified User (1 year, 7 months) Long Term User Shouts: 1 #
An Unknown Location | 1 year, 7 months ago (7 minutes after post)

Ask a doctor.
They will give her a test and find out the problem

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Saggezza offline Verified User (2 years, 5 months) Long Term User Shouts: 4 #
Vancouver, BC, CA | 1 year, 7 months ago (11 minutes after post)

Believe me… She is ontop of it :-) She knows exactly what her daughter is allergic to, and has taken all the steps that she is aware of to deal with it.

I guess I’m looking for any suggestions that would fall under the “not obviouse” category. Things that others learnt, who have had to deal with this themselves.

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jcd offline Verified User (2 years, 2 months) Long Term User Shouts: 1 #
An Unknown Location | 1 year, 7 months ago (39 minutes after post)

I’ve never had to deal with food allergies myself. As far as I know, I’m not allergic to any food. I just have common seasonal allergies and hayfever.

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Maryville, TN, US | 1 year, 7 months ago (11 hours, 51 minutes after post)

Well, it depends on how drastically her allergies are. . .if they are bad enough for her to have an epi-pen then make sure that she always has that with her no matter what. Be very careful eating out, if a stove top is not cleaned enough then it can contaminate the food put on it next. Check the packaging on any food that is used because food can be processed in the craziest places. (Here is how I learned that lesson my step-dad is highly allergic to seafood, really shellfish, and he went out for breakfast before a hunting trip and had bacon at a mom and pop restaurant. After they went about a mile up into the mountains my step dad went into anaphylactic shock and almost died because he didn’t have his epi-pen, he is ok now by the way, but anyways they went back to the restaurant and asked for the packaging for the bacon and found out that it was actually processed at a seafood plant imagine that!)

Also, learn what you can do if she does go into anaphylactic shock. Have her type a list of everything that she is allergic to and some common foods that it comes in, make a bunch of copies of that sheet to give to anyone who she stays with for any length of time. I hope this helps, if i can think of anything else I will let you know.

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An Undisclosed Location | 1 year, 7 months ago (2 weeks, 3 days after post)

Of course, there are some professional medical ways to deal with. But I’m not doctor nor specialist. so, from my experience from food and medicine allergies.

Have you tried fermented foods? I tried Japanese food, umeboshi and natto.
Oh, don’t expect anything good in looks, tastes and smell at first. Umeboshi is salty and sour. Natto is beyond description. But when my body starts feeling something, the bad looks, tastes and smells are now ok for me.

I had hives from food and medicine combination, one umeboshi ceased down into mild way. My friend told me that foods and medicine are same source, which means we take them from our mouth. (probably talking about healthy food preference.)
I read in somewhere, how Jim Carry recovered from depression? “Meat and vegetables” over medicine?
Hope your friend’s daughter get over it.

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1 year, 4 months ago (3 months, 1 week after post)

be careful and find out the foods. also watch her carefully when she eats

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