dd1 age 7, wants to rebel against her allergies.

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today she got given a small bag of haribo at school . which she cant have due to it bringing her out in hives, and possible wheezing(has happened in the past)

she threw the most almighty strop about it. usually she is so good, and declines these sweets, and will get her something at the shop.

managed to get her to calm down, she says she just wants to be able to eat the same things as her friends. i feel bad for her, but theres nothing i can do.

she is allergic to food colourings, mainly the red/yellow/orange ones, as they bring her out in hives and make her asthma and eczema bad.

I had this recently with DS 6.5, complaining that everywhere he goes he sees someone eating something he can't. We had him taking crisps and stuff from friends in the lunch hall - potentially dangerous.

I posted at the time ree what I could expect from the school to help. It seems there is little help there.

But I feel for your DD. Nothing practical to add to help though as she knows as do you that she can't have these things.

Can you leave some acceptable goodies at school for them to give her instead of the sweets. That is what we do with DS.

she does have a stash of goodies at school which are colouring free. but these snuck through.

i think i gave you advice on your ds on my other name.

she has been so good till now. she didnt eat them, but was kicking off big time about it.

Sympathies then. DS has calmed down again - but whether that is the result of having had an anapalactic reaction at school 2 weeks ago or not I'm not sure. And that wasn't connected as far as I know to food - at least nothing he had eaten but have no idea what triggered it.

I guess you just have to keep agreeing its not fair but go through how horrible she feels if she does eat something she shouldn't