Food restrictions

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[Poll #1241007]

(I'm asking about the nature of the substance, not the process that led to it: I'm not asking whether you'll eat battery chickens or baby-killing coffee.)

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[nmg.livejournal.com]

Before the garklet was born, ias and I were participating in a study on the effects of maternal diet on egg and milk allergies in infants. The study was cancelled before the garklet could be tested, but we both had scratch tests for common allergens. In addition to grass and tree pollen allergies (which I already knew about, thankyouverymuch), I was also allergic to dogs (I've never liked dogs) and slightly to peanuts.

The latter surprised me, because I will happily scoff peanut butter. On the other hand, I don't like eating monkey nuts because (so I realised) the skins made my mouth feel funny. It hadn't occurred to me that this could be a symptom of a minor allergy. I haven't stopped eating peanuts, mind.

The garklet only has one allergy - a moderate reaction to egg white (even on skin contact) which brings him out in hives like bad nettle rash. If the study had still been running, we would have found this out at three months, rather than at six months when we tried to feed him scrambled eggs.

Far too many foods contain egg, alas.