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Just found out yesterday that my 3-year old daughter Tegan has a peanut allergy. We discovered the allergy after I made some Reese’s Pieces cookies and she and I split the first gooey one from the oven just over a week ago.
She immediately asked for chapstick, and when we tried to bring her to bed about 10-15 minutes later her bottom lip had swelled up. I showed my wife, then grabbed some Benedryl, and off to the ER we went. They gave more Benedryl, ibuprofin, and prednisone followed by a few hours of monitoring before they said she was OK.
Yesterday’s trip was to the allergist who gave us an epipen (we got one from the ER too). Now it’s time to put a kit together to carry everywhere we go. I’m already planning for the epipen and some Benedryl (children’s chewable). Any other thoughts on what might be useful? I was debating on some saline wipes in case there was a contact reaction to get the allergen cleaned off.
I’m at work now, but I’ll take a few pics and post them when I get home. I carry a Swiss Gear sling pack I picked up from Target when I take my daughter out, and have a pound in there. It has Benedryl, the little cup to pour it in, a Syringe to put it in and in her mouth, plus two Epi pens, some wipes, ect, plus a FAK for the kids. Mine’s allergic to Peanuts, Milk, and Eggs. She’s 4 now, we found out when she was little because her skin wouldn’t clear up, so we went to a dermatologist who tested her for allergies. My wife will take the allergy kit and put in her purse when she has the kids. Glad she’s ok too, I know how scary that can be, we ended up in the ER once when down in Wildwood because I gave her some Dip ‘n Dots, and apparently she can only have the rainbow ones because they don’t have dairy in them. Wasn’t labeled on the stand, so she got sick as a dog, throwing up and everything, and the first aid stations on the Boardwalk didn’t have Benedryl, so we ended up in the ER. That’s when I put together an allergy EDC kit for her.
Glad to hear that both of y’alls children are OK! One thing y’all may want to start to research is if the pre-schools and schools that your kids will go to have a school nurse or other person trained and equipped to use the Epi-pens.
In my state, many years ago, teachers were authorized through the State Health Department to “assist” a student with the administration of Epinephrin by using the Epi-pen of the student.
As I recall, teachers were trained by practicing with syringes loaded with sterile water. They then injected the sterile water into an orange for practice.
^Ditto! Glad they are both alright. Also, great advice on the schools, Cobra 6 Actual.
I like the idea of liquid benedryl. I don’t know anyone with those types of allergies, but I wonder, if someone is havign a seriously bad reaction, are their times that liquid would be used because it can be so easily adminitered and so easliy absorbed? (Assuming it is in fact easier to absorb in liquid state)
I think I read someting about diabetics and how they can be treated by rubbing some stuff on their gums for quick absorption? Maybe I just made that up…I dunno
Target has rapid melt benedryl (chewable) in a generic brand. We go through those like candy. Bummer of the epi-pen. Make sure it doesn’t get too hot. Or it’s worthless. I also always keep cortisone around also. Nothing like getting a kiss from family that just got done eating peanuts and your kid gets red hickeys all over. Fun times.
That’s a lot of allergies to deal with! I appreciate the picture ideas. I ordered an epipen case from tuffbags (google it if you’re interested), so we’ll see how that looks. I’ll post a picture when it gets here. I was thinking of including a larger FAK along with the pens though.
The epipens now are basically self-injecting. You pull a pin in the back, and stab the tip in the leg and it automagically injects the dosage for you. You just need to hold it on the thigh for several seconds while it is injecting. When you pull it back off the leg, the needle gets covered up for you too, so no sharps! Great advice on checking future schools. Her pre-school now is already nut free.
The epipens now are basically self-injecting. You pull a pin in the back, and stab the tip in the leg and it automagically injects the dosage for you. You just need to hold it on the thigh for several seconds while it is injecting. When you pull it back off the leg, the needle gets covered up for you too, so no sharps! Great advice on checking future schools. Her pre-school now is already nut free.
We picked up both Target and Walgreens generic chewable benedryl. Good thought on the cortisone. We go through that a bit anyway as she gets eczema pretty easily too.
Yep, I knew about the auto inject pens, but you don’t have 3 or 4 year olds using them on themselves. As for the teachers: the only way the union would ‘sign off’ on allowing them to assist a student is if the teachers had ‘training.’
Typically, once they ingest the allergy and you give them the Benedryl, they throw up. Least that’s been my experience with my daughter when she’s having a bad one. When she gets smaller reactions, she’ll cough, scratch at her throat, ect. It’s rough, especially with Peanuts, because normal things like pretzel’s on the back of the bags say “made in a factory that also manufactures peanuts” So some of the bags they’ll be perfectly fine with, while the same brand and type they’ll react to another time due to cross contamination.
Alright, as promised, here’s the pics of the sling bag I carry when I have my daughter without my wife around. The white bag with the allergy medicine fits my wife’s purses so I don’t have to carry the bag when she’s with us. Nice thing about the bag is there is a 3rd pocket on the right hand side, I can actually keep a gun in holster in there if need be. No quick access really, but I try not to carry off body unless I absolutely need to.
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