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http://sunnycoastkids.com.au/contributors/heidi-finlay/22279/

Kids parties 
http://sunnycoastkids.com.au/articles/parenting/special-needs/severe-food-allergies-and-kids-parties/20926/

Facts about food allergies 
http://sunnycoastkids.com.au/articles/lifestyle/nutrition/facts-about-food-allergies/23180/

Recent allergy program links 
http://sunnycoastkids.com.au/articles/lifestyle/nutrition/an-emerging-epidemic-food-allergies-in-australia-america-on-recent-tv-programs/25302/

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Hi I am a mother of 4 children have allergies , all different from one another. As well as this I am also new at writing a blog so please be patience with me.

Some of the things that come to mind to write about is the lack of support you may have once you first find out your child has allergies.Firstly as a parent we have to come to terms with this whole allergy thing before we can fully make others aware and educated about what we may be going through.Even then its still hard , as its a lot to get your head around especially of your child has Anaphylaxis to a particular food or foods as the condition is severe and life threatening.
So many times i have come across families living with a child or children with allergies and they themselves still have the allergen around the house or may even eat it themselves. This is a practice i think at some stage normally the early stages we all do it. I remember when our oldest son hadn't been officially diagnose and given a Epipen due to the lack of knowledge that the doctors had even had in this area. This one particular night my husband was snacking on rice crackers mixed with nuts in the same packet , our Son came out after his bed time and was asking for a rice cracker , in which my husband had then given him one and said " You go to bed straight after this" well not much to my shock our Son was still calling out from his room as usual at night not wanting to go to bed.I said "get to sleep" by this time my husband had headed out to his work he had on at the time.He continued a couple times saying my eyes are itchy , with my response being get up and get a washer to wash your face , as he had dust mite allergy too.In the end i turned the bedroom light on to find his eyes were swollen and he could nearly not see out of them as well as had trouble breathing.I ran out to the phone and called an ambulance at this stage then my husband , they came out and all was settling down , a lucky close call I'd say.
The point to this is even us as parents take some time to actually have the extent of our kids allergies sink in ,  my word it sure did that night. So be kind to yourself if your child has just been diagnosed and at the same time keep them safe and take no risks.
Look forward in writing again soon until then keep safe and have awesome day

heidi :)

Well for an update on things here , our little Princess has been a little unwell for a while , with holding her ears and waking through night and reflux , so we have chosen to leave the Atropy Patch Testing for while till she is more back to herself, so we don't get any false positives being her immune system seems on alert.

So hence my blogs have been far and few between.

Since last blog my little man with Egg , Latex , Banana , Strawberry Anaphylaxis was invited to a little friends birthday party.In this case what do you do ? if you have kids with life threatening allergies do you , Say no thank you they can't go ? or accept the invite and let your allergy child enjoy apart of childhood? now to be real honest in earlier days it did become quite a hurdle or stress for the thought of taking my child to a party its like putting them in a pool of knife's as such , figure of speech. Now I choose to accept the invites and pack them their our party pack so they can feel they are apart of the party as well as a lot other parents that not use to deal with kids with allergies and Epipens tend to not like the idea of you handing it to them and walking away for the length of the party , so i tend to be there the whole time with them in saying that in the background so they don't feel i'm uncool ha ha ha .

Well for this occasion I was taken by huge surprise that the mother of the birthday boy checked everything she was having so it didn't have egg and even didn't have balloons just so my little man could be safe at his friend's birthday. If she was unsure heading up to the party she contacted me and asked I felt so appreciative of the effort she went into it.

That morning of the party I organised to make some egg free , nut , dairy , soy , wheat FREE mini mud cake muffins to take to the party ( as I knew that she wouldn't have the idea to make them egg free so no cakes would be there) oh must admit I was told one item would have egg and that would be the birthday cake , which while i am there was fine.

Overall my muffins were a huge hit with the adults first and then the kids and all of which didn't even realise they were allergy friendly ones ( as normally they taste like crap) and with years of practice and a million muffins up my sleeve I had to get something right ha ha  :)

So overall was a successful afternoon at the party and my little man wouldn't have know any different.

Thank you for you following and reading my blogs many more to come .

Heidi Finlay :)

The Allergy Free Zone