Hellobee Boards Topic: Do people lie to your kid about their allergies?

Hellobee Boards Topic: Do people lie to your kid about their allergies? https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Mon, 18 May 2026 07:16:13 +0000 brownie on "Do people lie to your kid about their allergies?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-people-like-to-your-kid-about-their-allergies#post-1960779 Wed, 26 Nov 2014 05:16:05 +0000 brownie 1960779@https://boards.hellobee.com/ We tell the truth and at 3 he will see milk and tell us "milk hurts my tummy". Soy is a lot harder to visualize so he isn't quite there yet. He will accept when we say he can't have it because it will hurt his tummy. But a friends daughter started asking at 4 "does that have milk in it". So that education really does come across to the kids at a relatively early age. Mrs. Jacks on "Do people lie to your kid about their allergies?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-people-like-to-your-kid-about-their-allergies#post-1960777 Wed, 26 Nov 2014 05:13:18 +0000 Mrs. Jacks 1960777@https://boards.hellobee.com/ My older daughter has life threatening nut allergies. I need her to understand what she can't eat, why she can't eat those things and to always ask if those ingredients are present in the foods she eats. "Yucky" isn't going to cut it, because she's overcome disliking a lot of foods she used to think were yucky. I think you need to make sure grandma understands all of this as a safety issue! MrsRcCar on "Do people lie to your kid about their allergies?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-people-like-to-your-kid-about-their-allergies#post-1960766 Wed, 26 Nov 2014 04:55:05 +0000 MrsRcCar 1960766@https://boards.hellobee.com/ N is gluten and dairy free for gut reasons. Whenever people have something he can't have we simply say that "I am sorry you can't have what so and so is having but it will hurt your tummy and you would be upset. Let me see what I have for you instead. " I am gluten , dairy, and all nut free so I am used to it by now. N doesn't seem to mind once I explain it to him. When he is older I am hoping to give him better explanations. Plus normally what other people are having isn't healthy so I always have healthy snacks on hand for him. Pumuckl on "Do people lie to your kid about their allergies?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-people-like-to-your-kid-about-their-allergies#post-1960751 Wed, 26 Nov 2014 03:38:57 +0000 Pumuckl 1960751@https://boards.hellobee.com/ I have celiac disease so no allergies but still I couldn't eat what most kids ate (diagnosed at 14m). I was brought up the way you're doing it with your LO. I was always told WHY I couldn't have something. I believe it helped tremendously in just making it my normal and me not harboring any negative feelings when others do eat gluten. So I'd say you're doing the right thing! jedeve on "Do people lie to your kid about their allergies?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-people-like-to-your-kid-about-their-allergies#post-1960618 Tue, 25 Nov 2014 21:53:41 +0000 jedeve 1960618@https://boards.hellobee.com/ My MIL kind of makes a big deal about feeling badly about LO's allergies and doesn't want to eat things with dairy in them in front of him. And if she does, and he wants a bite, she tells him "no it's icky, you wouldn't like it." It drives me crazy. I always correct her and say "no, you cannot have it. It has dairy (or nuts) in it. It's Grandma food; it's not safe for you to eat." He doesn't fuss about it. But I need him to learn early on that when I say he can't eat something, he can't eat it. And that there are just things in the world that are not fair game. Anyone else have this problem?