Peanut Allergies

I wanted to talk about my son's allergies. He seems to have gotten the shit end of a lot of deals. He had plagiocephaly from being crammed in the womb alongside his chubby twin and required a cranial helmet, he was tongue tied and needed to have his frenulum snipped and he had to drink Neocate amino acid based formula for his first year of life because of a milk and soy allergy. We also found out at 13 months that he has a severe peanut allergy. We were told at his 12 month well baby check that we could introduce a little peanut butter in to his diet. At 5:05, I gave him less than a tsp of peanut butter on a ritz cracker. By 5:15, he was getting his first ambulance ride to the hospital. Almost instantly after consuming the cracker, he started breaking out in a rash around his face and up his arms. His tongue started swelling and he began to stick it out as you can see in the pictures. While I was on the phone with 911, he then began to vomit. We later found out that the vomiting may have saved his life. He was in the ER for about 5 hours. His skin was beet red and he was boiling hot to the touch. He was itching until he had deep scratches on his arms and legs. The ER wasn't able to lower his body temp even with all the iv fluids they had been pumping into him for 5 hours. He was admitted to the Sanford Children's Hospital. They were able to give him something to lower his temp, his splotches started to disappear and his itching finally ceased. They have an amazing team there. It was the scariest day ever and our lives will never be the same. Our life now revolves around making Houston's world safe for him to exist in it. Our days of not reading EVERY label are over. He will never eat at a DQ, a buffet, potlucks, etc. Because of his egg allergy, he also won't get birthday cake, pancakes and ice cream. Allergies suck.