McDonald's: Fries Have Potential Allergens - Yahoo! News
I have always known that My Lily has a reaction to eating these fries. At least now Mickey D's is labeling them properly. She also has a reaction to eating the hamburgers, even when we purchase them plain and with no bun.
I cannot tell you how frustrating it is to be told that a food does not contain wheat and then watch Lily get sick because it really does have wheat in it. The labeling rules are such crap! I am so grateful that they have been improved and this new admission by McDonald's is a really positive step in the right direction. Yeah.
A couple of weeks ago Lily had a mild cold. I haven't been able to find a cold medicine that she can take. She has only been sick with a cold a couple of times and I should be more pro-active. So I didn't give her any meds during her cold. She had a really runny nose and we went through a couple of boxes of tissues but poor Miss Lily had to live through the cold the old fashioned way.
Then, a few days into the cold she woke up in the middle of the night with a cough. She coughed for hours. So I got her up and gave her some medicine, and that medicine contained some incident which caused an allergic reaction. I knew this would happen as I used this same medication the last time she was sick. The label does not list any bad ingredients, but her reaction is my only barometer. So after taking the medicine we sat up for an hour and watched late night TV and her cough went away. She went back to sleep and the whole scenerio was repeated the next night.
After those two doses on two consecutive nights Lily's cold went away. However, now she was embroiled in the mist of a horrid allergic reaction. This includes rashes, diarrhea, lethargy, and lots of screaming discomfort. So after the cold was over we had another week and a half of feeling lousy. Just because I gave her the medication. I never know the right thing to do, let her cough and get no sleep for two nights or feel awful for a week and a half. The biggest problem is that she is allergic to both corn and wheat, so the meds that don't have wheat have corn and vice versa. I am hoping she will never get sick again. I have called the manufacturers of all the cold meds that I have access to here in Japan and none have ok for Lily. So I guess I have to go through the doctor and pharmacy. Fun.
So yeah, McDonald's. According to the new law wheat has to be clearly marked on products along with many other allergens, but not corn, so basically I am still screwed!
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The fries have wheat because of two reasons -- the coating on them to keep them from sticking AND the fact that they are fried in the same oil as nuggets (kinda surprised you didn't know that).
As for the cold medicine, Darwin takes pediacare and doesn't have any reactions to it. Can you get that on base, or do I need to mail you some?
Which type of pediacare? According to the website they have corn syrup. I'll check and see what we have on base as far as the pediacare.
Infant's PediaCare Decongestant's Inactive Ingrediants: benzoic acid, citric acid, flabors, glycerin, polyethyene glycol, propylene glycol, purified water, sodium benzoate, sorbitol, sucrose.
Infant's PediaCare Cough & Decongestant's Inactive Ingrediants:citric acid, flavor, glycerin, purified water, sodium benzoate and sorbitol.
And our Chidren's Motrin (grape flavor) does have corn syrup.
I've got a kid with allergies. We poured through the Wendy's web site one night, so excited that she could have their fries and nuggets!
NOPE!
If they would just find an employee who has food allergies in their family to create their list, everything would be just fine. If you don't deal with it, you just don't care enough!
I can not imagine what it is like for you to have to be so attuned to what is in the ingredients including medicine. I would think the base needs to help you out more...but what am I saying, it is military! As for the cold well it takes a good 10 days to get rid of a basic cold so I would let her deal with the cold rather then chance an allergic reaction.
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