Unintentional Cheese Trial- Failed

For years now I have been learning what kids can and cannot have to eat and have gotten fairly comfortable with labels on boxes, cans, and packages because most of the ingredients are able to be to read. For some time I have been teach Chantelle how to read labels so she can eventually transition over to shopping for and managing her food.

Well Friday the girl's had a fundraising activity at church where a potluck style of Mexican type foods were served. All was good until I told Chantelle that she could have the beans ONLY if she asked and they were plain beans. She came back with a plate with of olives and a small amount of beans saying that they were safe. The olives I knew were save.

Then a little while later I was talking with one of the ladies at church and we talked about the beans and when I discovered there was a small amount of cheese, like not much for a HUGE pan, my heart skipped a beat and I almost swore.

I let them know we had to go immediately, not only because Jade was not feeling to well from the procedure she had the day before, but because we did not have any liquid Benadryl in the car and I needed to get some and get all of Chantelle's GI meds in her ASAP.

I very quickly passed off the rest of the tickets I got for mt kids for the games they had, gathered the kids and we left. Once we got liquid Benadryl, I gave Chantelle her allergic reaction dose right there in Walgrens, then we headed home. I then gave her the rest of her meds, had her get ready for bed and we watched chopped as she snuggled with me for the night. She was not going to sleep in her own bed if she was going to have a bad reaction.

About 20 minutes after we got home, she started with some serious venting and diarrhea. However, thank heaven, she did not have a super severe reaction like she did in the NICU. Knowing how allergic she is to soy and corn, I barely slept Friday night as I was ready to scoop her up and take her to ER or call 911 and use EPI-pin on her if needed.

All day Saturday we had her feeding pump running just Pedialyte, and today she seems to be okay. This is not the way I wanted to trial cheese. But we do know now that that she is no longer anaphylactic , just reactive still.