If you know your child has allergies the last thing you should risk is exposing them to the cause of there allergy in a non medical environment.

A warning to those who may read USA Today’s piece. Yes, expose your child to life, pets, sand, soil and other kids - but be careful.

Once an allergy is found get advice from medical staff. Take that to heart, but don’t rely on it, do your own research. Once your up on the various causes, reasons, triggers and treatments for your child’s allergy then go back to the medical staff and thrash out ideas with them.

My daughter is dairy intolerant, she cannot have lactose, egg and whatever else has similar compounds or other triggers; rubber and bananas for example.

Doctors argued against the intolerance, both with us and between themselves. Advice ran from give her nothing with those triggers in to ignore it and it’ll go away. We thought that wasn’t very useful.

It was out own research that nailed what was causing her reactions and what to do, even down to stopping her from having inoculations grown in egg culture, like the MMR.

The argument with the doctors over the MMR is still ongoing, some say it’s safe, some say it’s not. We say it’s not until it can be proven that it will not cause a reaction - that it wasn’t grown in egg culture.

Doctors are people, with varying levels of skill and differing personal opinions. They make mistakes. Double check everything if you’ve got a child who could be allergenic, anaphylactic shock is something to be avoided.

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