Allergens

“When your child is really young, we, as parents, have almost total control over what and when our children eat (save for those times they find a particularly juicy-looking leftover sweet on the playground floor). It’s a slow process and doesn’t happen all at once, but as they get older, that level of total control…

“Raising a child with an allergy is tricky at times. As they get older and grow more independent, it is natural that as a parent you have less and less control over your child’s diet. My son is only five years old, but we’ve already been faced with difficult situations and choices, and as parents…

“Our discovery of our son’s allergies was during weaning, much like, I imagine, how most parent’s first discover their child’s allergies. The rather unmistakeable clue was the hives that broke out over his whole face when he first tried a plain yogurt. It didn’t help matters when, as most babies do, he smeared the yogurt…