Since I counted the top ten reasons you know you are a food allergy parent, I couldn’t leave out the Asthma parents too! Since so many of us have children with both food allergies and asthma! So, here we go…
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The Top Ten Reasons You Know You Are a Food Allergy Parent when….
[unordered_list style=”star”]- you hate the wind more than Dorothy and Toto
- you cheer on puking up mucus
- trigger is not the name of a horse
- you find yourself getting excited over electronic peak flow meters
- TSA has examined your travel nebulizer
- one mere cough from down the hall bolts you straight up in the middle of the night
- Singulair®, Flovent® and Advair® are not a foreign language
- the soft sound of an room air purifier is like music to your ears
- unlike football, you don’t want to be anywhere near the Red Zone
- you carry an extra rescue inhaler and are not afraid to use it
One of the hardest things I find about managing both life threatening food allergies and asthma is talking to others. I hate to be the one that might be perceived as demanding, pushing or for asking too much. What I now know, fourteen years later, is that honest, clear information presented with kindness works!..