No More Seafood...for Madison

We went to Pei Wei tonight for dinner. no big deal right...good food...fun family time...

That's what we thought! We ordered the crab wantons for an appetizer. We have them all the time in Chinese resaturates...but they are usually not made with real crab meat.

After Madison took one bite, Kelly and I looked at each other... we knew better. How could we have forgotten.

Madison has a food intolerance to seafood. We thought for awhile it was just white fish (read fish sticks) but it has now happened with crab and lobster.

We keep hoping she will outgrow this intolerance, but every now and then (once a year or so) we slip up and discover she has not outgrown it.

On this particular night, she took 1 bite.....1 bite of the crab meat. Said she didn't think she liked it and pushed her plate away. We just stared at each other...realizing what just happened and what we where in for. We hope and prayed that the 1 bite she took wasn't enough to upset her tummy.

We were wrong. After we came I home I jumped every time she hiccuped or burped. She kept saying "I'm ok mommy". So I finally put her to bed thinking we were in the clear...I was wrong.

She woke up vomiting and there was nothing she could do. It comes so strongly she has no control. I grabbed her up and stuck her in the bathtub...still holding the vomit bowl!

I feel for my baby. The funny thing is she had fish and other seafood before all this happened with no problems. She used to devour fried shrimp and loved crab or lobster bisque.

I'm not sure how or why....but I hope at some point in her life she will be able to eat seafood....It really is yummy!