As you all know, Jace rather enjoys food (well, most food. anything resembling a vegetable is taboo). He has been known to eat other people’s snacks at daycare when April isn’t looking and has made off with William’s sippy cup of milk on more than one occasion. Yesterday he apparently took some of David’s snack (April’s oldest son who is going into 2nd grade next year). Problem is that David had walnuts for snack and apparently Jace had a bit of a reaction to them.  After snack they all went into the other room to read stories. April glanced over at Jace and noticed that one of his cheeks was kind of red. Well, he frequently has chapped cheeks, I think from drooling in his sleep, so she didn’t think much of it. A couple of pages later she glanced over and his other cheek was red. Next look his entire face was red and he was getting itchy. A quick call to dad and some children’s benedryl and Jace recovered none the worse for the experience. Looks like we might have a walnut allergy on our hands (or in our kid!).

He had vegi burgers with walnuts last summer and got a rash on his face but it was at the same time that he had hand foot mouth disease so I wasn’t really sure what the cause was. So as not to endure another blood draw 2 months after our traumatic 1 year appointment, our pediatrican recommended just avoiding nuts and doing a screening at 2 when he needed bloodwork anyways. I can’t say we (read this as STEVE) were entirely sucessful at this since apparently we (STEVE) forgot that the leftover hazelnut sage risoto contained nuts etc etc but there were no future reactions until yesterday. Good thing Jace’s 2 month appointment is on thursday. Hopefully the allergy is limited to just walnuts.

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