Charlie Smith (3 years) can not enjoy chocolate, mince pies, cookies, nuts or even a Christmas tree. All the knick-knacks that can make Christmas Little Charlie suffered a severe allergic reaction.
Danger lurks boy from Worcester, USA, is when the Christmas season arrives. It can even lay in the hospital just because it touches a friend who had eaten peanuts.
His family was forced to make sacrifices by swapping the original Christmas tree with an artificial Christmas tree that is free of dust, because the original Christmas tree can bring asthma attacks for Charlie.
"Allergies and asthma Charlie means that Christmas is a dangerous time for him. We must be very careful to keep him safe throughout the year, but more particularly at Christmas," explained his mother Jo Smith (33 years), as reported by Dailymail, Saturday ( 24/12/2011).
According to Jo, Christmas this year be the toughest Christmas for the Smith family, because he could not have any food containing peanuts to celebrate Christmas, including Christmas cake, Christmas pudding and mince pie (pie typical Christmas).
"People buy a box of chocolates without thinking, but different from our family. This is not because Charlie could not eat any chocolate, it's just that I should be sure to buy chocolate that contains no peanuts in it," explains Jo.
Charlie's brother, Harry (6 years), often get a Christmas card with a small brown of her classmates at school. Jo tells Harry to make sure she washes hands immediately after eating chocolate, just in case he touched his brother, Charlie.
"Christmas Party also makes it difficult for us. Most tend to put food on the buffet. For that, I must warn the host ahead of time about allergies Charlie. I have already sent the lunch menu itself to the host before," said Jo.
Charlie started allergy problems since he was 18 months. At that time he was sitting on the lap of his grandfather who was eating peanuts. Suddenly Charlie's body swelled and started scratching himself so badly to bleed.
"It was so scary. We do not even think about peanuts. We do not know what happened. We just rushed to bathe her and give her an antihistamine tablets and cream. It was terrible and we can not understand what had happened," explains Jo.
Once brought to the doctor and underwent allergy prick test, the Smith family just found out that Charlie has peanut allergy. Can cause severe allergic reaction just by touching someone who is or has been eating beans.
"We are fortunate that the reaction not only affects the skin and cause the throat to swell, which can affect breathing. I shudder to think what would happen if he really eat peanuts," said Jo.
Jo and her husband Dave (42 years) must carry a special cream, antihistamine tablets and EpiPens wherever they go, so as to treat their son could be the first sign of reaction began to appear.
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