Help My Toddler Went into Anaphylactic Shock after playing on climbing frame!!

[Hillary]

We went out for a meal last night and my toddler who is really shy wanted to play, she waited until all the other children had finished and took a bee line for the climbing frame/slide.

Within minutes she started showing signs of allergy I gave her piriton and took her straight to hospital!

It was so scary has anybody else ever experienced this from a climbing frame! She was going to start toddler group but i'm not sure now wether its safe! She's allergic to egg and nut but toys, how far does it go?

HELPPPPPPPPPP!!!!!!!!!

[Pixiefish]

Could it be perhaps that someone had just been on the equipment with nuts on their hands. If this is the case then I'm sure that the playgroup would have/bring measures into place regarding no nuts

[Jimjamskeepingoffvaxthreads]

bee/wasp sting? Rubber? (safety material)

[Hillary]

Maybe she's been to the park before but they had just grass underneath, it seems asthouth everything out there is a threat.

[Jimjamskeepingoffvaxthreads]

it does sound very worrying. are her allergies being assessed?

[Hillary]

She had an allergy test when she was 9 months old when she had a reaction to egg it came back with egg/nuts/seeds/fur but she's never reacted to being outside i'm a nervous wreck every time i take her out she's only 2 shurely she's not going to add anything else to the list!

[Ladymuck]

No advice, just very sorry to hear this - it must be a worry for you!

[Chandra]

Hillary, I don't think is the climbing frame, any possibility of transcontamination in the place you took your meal tonight?

[Chandra]

Or even a slight smudge of peanut butter somewhere in the frame.

Hope your DD feels better soon.

[fattiemumma]

well done for having Piriton with you!

i would imagine that possibly there was something on the frame....that one of the other children had rubebd some food on the frame...she touched it and maybe touched her mouth?

i think you need to let your gp know so he can reffer you to the hospital for further assesment

[Chandra]

How are things going Hillary?

[Hillary]

hi there!

Sorry i havn't replied for a little while my sister was taken ill so we have all been away.

Thank you for all your support its so difficult with a little one with so many life threatning allergies you are constantly on the look out and cant let your guard down for a moment.

There are so many things she cant do or take part in i'v made an appointment for her to have more tests. Allergies are funny things one day you can eat something and the next day you can be allergic to it. I'm worried about school and thought of maybe home educating her for the first couple of years until she is fully aware of her allergies and can act on them herself, luckely she has a little sister (3 months old) to play with because she cant really mix with other children in clubs and things as there are too many triggers egg is even an E number which is used for colourings in playdough, paint etc.

Oh i dont know these little bundles of joy are wonderful but extreamly hard work - (worth it though)

Thanks again everyone X

[mell2]

Hillary - i had been wondering how you and your dd were. I can understand how worried you are about her starting school but you have a while yet don't you?

Thinking of you and hope your sister is ok now.

Take carexxxxx

[Hillary]

Thank you internet buddies

she is a little lady, she has blonde hair and piercing blue eyes the sort which lock your gaze, she attracts everybody to her so she's hard to take out as everybody talks to her AND TOUCHES HER which occasionally sends her into anaphylactic shock depending on what they had for dinner. I hope the cause was cross contamination if not i'm emigrating (only joking)!

It is very sad not being able to mix she's a very confident 2 year old little lady but is terrified of other children she resembles them as dogs i think - (a staffordshire bull terrier knocked her off her feet now everything small is scary)

I'v been thinking of starting a toddler group for allergy children. Moving soon so will wait until then so if you see the adverts going up pop in and say hello!!


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[ke127106uk]

Hillary, you say your daughter went into Anaphylactic Shock - what symptoms did she have - true anaphylaxis is potentially life threatening, my daughter's had 2 of these from nut allergy. If you managed to bring her out of the reaction with only piriton, it doesn't sound like anaphylaxis more like a reaction. There are various grades of reaction and anaphylaxis is the most serious - usually requiring hospitalisation and administration of adrenaline.

I know, from experience, that it is possible to have a reaction from touching items that have been contaminated. My DH had a chicken korma some years ago which contained coconut. He'd been having these for ages but, he didn't was his hands afterwards, picked up a pencil to make a note and then daughter used pencil shortly afterwards - big coconut reaction!

My daughter's now a teenager but she's lived with severe nut allergy - allergic to all nuts, coconut, oak trees/acorns, horses, cats, dogs and more... for 12 years+. We've had to adjust to this as a family, I have 2 other kids who are not allergic - when eldest goes to stay with friends etc I give the others treats that they couldn't normally have ie. Bounty bar or some of our curry etc. It's accepted that they will get a "nutty treat" if she's away for weekend or something.

It does start to get easier as they get older, they have to learn to take responsibility - admitedly you say your child is only 2 so you'll have a while to wait but, my advice would be, from experience, don't wrap her up in cotton wool, let her get out there and experience the world. Home schooling is, in my opinion, not necessarily the best way to go it's prolonging the agony for when she is older and has to go to school and nursery. Educational establishments are more clued up these days on nut and other allergies and do all they can to help - restaurants are better in fact, it's a lot easier now than when I started with this whole thing 12 years ago.

Let your daughter live, get a Medic Alert bracelet or similar identity necklace etc. this will keep all the information you need immediately to hand in the case of an emergency and help paramedics etc., it's amazing what peace of mind that can give you, check your GP/consultant, can you have some epipens to keep with you for emergencies but check that you know the severity of the symptoms to use them for. Sometimes an antihistamine is all that is needed for an external reaction - internal reactions ie. throat swelling, breathing difficulties etc. will be more likely to need adrenaline.

Anything else you need to know, just ask.

Regards, Katherine

[Hillary]

Hi there Katherine

Welcome to mumsnet!
I have not posted for a while as i am in the process of moving home and everything is all over the place.

My DD has severe anaphylaxis she had her first attack when she was 9 months old when she ate egg. She too is allergic to nuts, eggs, fish, oils, mango, pineapple, bees, wasps, horses, cats (anything with fur)and on.... she has asthma, hayfever and eczema so i know you feel its difficult, when she reacts against a new substance for the first time her reaction is not so severe as it will be the next time, i do carry 2 epipens at all times and piriton.

She is not accepted into any groups as they will not take responsibility for her and as you will remember the terrible twos they dont understand at that age so its really dangerous, as i am a single mum of two anaphylactic children my youngest is 5 months old its even harder.

As she grows she will understand her condition and know how to deal with it I will not wrap her in cotton wool but she is a lively little girl who never sits still - in fact she never sits so she has to have some form of restraint otherwise we should take shares in the NHS. I will home educate her as i feel its the safest option for her at present, i spoke to the matron at my old school and she said in all her 30 years as matron if she had a child with such severe allergies she would most certainly home educate.

I congratulate you in making it through 12 years! I do have a way to go yet but i think i shall qualify to being a dietition when she has left home!

Thank you for your advice

Hillary