Food allergies

Our DGD has food allergies, including sesame. Thankfully, none of them severe enough for her to need to carry an epipen. but I read all the information coming from the inquest for that child who ate a baguette with sesame seed with horror.

The times when DGD was younger, and like Marydoll I scanned the labels of everything. DGD's allergies include mustard, which is so widely used for flavour in bought fresh food like sandwiches and dishes served in restaurants, in salad cream, mayonnaise and other food stuffs.

Her allergies are fading but DDiL was diagnosed with a auto-immune disease a few years ago and this is now causing her to have food allergies. I have both sets of allergies printed out and stuck to a kitchen door to constantly remind me when cooking of what I must avoid.

Christmas is coming and I will be making Christmas cake, pudding and my own mincemeat to ensure it is nut free. I just wish I could find a nut-free version of marzipan.

I don't think things have changed enough Marydoll if the poor girl who ate a Pret sandwich is anything to go by. Hopefully this will be a seminal moment.

When my son was four years old, he suffered anaphylactic shock and nearly died. Few doctors were aware of peanut allergy then. My own GP dismissed the idea, until it happened to his own daughter.
In those days Epipens to be ordered from the USA and we had to wait for months to get one. I was classed initially as a neurotic mother, when I insisted on reading the labels on every piece of food I bought.
A few years later the same thing happened again in an operating theatre, he once again had an allergic reaction and his heart stopped.
Thank God times have changed.