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Day 19

It's incredible that my three year old is becoming  so aware of her life threatening food allergy, I'm feeling like it's resonating! These days,  every day sparks another reason to engage in discussion about food allergies. Today she had another contact reaction to something unknown and she came and told me! I'm not used to that. Today her reaction was really itchy, different from yesterdays that was painful.  I'm not sure why her reactions vary, but I'm thinking whey and casein contacts react differently in her body triggering different reactions. In any case, she needed a full bath to get rid of the hives that broke out but she felt very in control of it and made me a proud mommy.    

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