Perspective is Everything-- Here's Mine: For my family, our milk allergy journey has presented two things to know: Where's the milk contamination (so we can avoid it), and Learning to understand how to live milk-free, and find the foods we need. Once we figure out the what and the where, we Have to figure out who. Who can understand our life and/or is capable of "getting it", and who do we need to avoid to keep our daughter's life safe? These (really) three components provide the tools needed to parent a child with life threatening airborne, touch, AND ingestive reactive food allergy. With our daughter's severe allergy, everyone in our household plays by the same rules. They're real simple: NO cows milk allowed...ever! We've learned that foods are rarely what they claim to be. We're eons beyond being sold by fancy labels and false claims. Some brands mention cross contamination - some don't (even though the 15 million Americans with a food
An inside view of the food allergy epidemic. Sophia is a 6 year old living with a life threatening food allergy to both milk proteins: whey and casein. She is anaphylactic to even the touch or breath of a concentrated protein. She, subsequently, suffers from hives, excema, and respiratory symptoms to the touch of a slight presence of either milk protein. She is among the many other children in the U.S. suffering with food allergies. There is no cure, no treatment, only avoidance.