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In this video by TV360, you will learn about peanut allergies in children and their effects - Part 2 of 2.

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Children can be trusted to essentially own their allergy or be more responsible for what they eat or drink when they enter kindergarten or first grade essentially school aged children. Sandy has talked to Walker already about how harmful peanuts and peanut products can be for him, and so I think that is already engrained in him and he just needs to be aware that if there are kids that are trading lunches with him and that sort of thing he should probably discouraged from doing so. And also Sandy probably needs to identify a school nurse or authority to make people aware of Walker’s allergy in case there is a bad reaction while at school including maybe a medical alert bracelet and even having epinephrine kit in the nurse’s office for use in case there is a severe allergy to peanuts in his case. The most common symptoms especially the food allergy are rashes, hives, as well cholic and GI symptoms like diarrhea, nausea and vomiting. But these can also escalate quickly or from the get go present something more serious and life threatening like angioedema which is swelling of the tongue and throat muscles, spasming of the voice box where one can’t breathe or brocho constriction causing wheezing and asthma. Ultimately, the most severe allergic reaction to foods is something called anaphylactic shock and that could occur in minutes to hours of ingesting an offending food allergen. Mother’s who are breastfeeding generally have kids who have less food allergy than those who don’t breastfeed. But it’s also important for breastfeeding mothers to avoid some of the highly allergenic foods. This includes tree nuts, peanuts, egg, milk, soy, wheat, corn, fish and in particular shellfish. Now it’s not to say that they can’t have these products but they should have less of them as far as amount and frequency.