Eating Habits & Schedule: Epi Pen

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Worried About Child with Severe Allergy Attending Preschool

Hi moms. My 2-year old has been diagnosed with a severe allergy to sesame. 3 nights ago he had a severe reaction and I had to administer an epi-pen and call 911. The scariest part of all of this is that he barely touched a sesame bun with the tip of his finger (before we could stop him). It was from this tiny amount of contact that his face, eyes, lips and tongue all swelled up. As a result of this experience, my husband and I are rethinking a lot of things, including whether my son, Eli, will be safe attending preschool in a year. For...

Eating Loss of Interest

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Refuses Medicine, Medical Treatment, Etc.

My son had surgery at 4 weeks and at 13 months. I had thought we had gotten over his fear of medicine and Doctors, but as of late, his behavior has me really worried. We tried to take him for an ultrasound last week, and he refused. I spent 20 minutes trying to get him up on the table, and while I got him up there a few times, he refused to let her put the jelly, etc. on him. Now tonight he refused to take allergy medicine when he was having a bad hive reaction. It is a new flavor, one I bought hoping to convince him to be more open to...