Dental: Toddler, Epi Pen

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Son W/ Multiple Allergies. Help!

I just found out today that my 13-month-old son, who I thought only had a milk allergy, which was bad enough, also is allergic to peanuts and eggs. Needless to say, I'm freaking out. Nobody in my family has ever had food allergies and so it's just so hard to grasp the fact that he has one. I know I have to totally change our lifestyles, including my 3-year-old's, who has no allergies whatsoever and loves to eat everything everywhere. Has anybody else had to deal with this? I'm just lost.

Emergency Care

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Adverse Reaction to Epi-pen Jr.

Hi moms, Last weekend, I fed my son whole wheat pasta, green peas, with homemade carbonara sauce (milk, egg, basil, parmesan cheese). All of these ingredients, he has had some way before, but never with carbonara sauce. Almost immediately, he began rubbing his eyes, getting the sauce all over his face and into his eyes, and he began swelling pretty intensely, but he was breathing fine. We went to urgent care, where they gave him benadryl orally, which he promptly vomited. Then, they gave him an epi-pen jr. shot. My son cried for a...