While chewing gum the other day Lucas got some in his hair. Well, he got A LOT in his hair. Shocking right, that a 3 year old would get gum in his hair? I was trying to avoid cutting his hair so we started working on the gum to get it out. It was in there good. When I was a kid my mom used peanut butter to get gum out of my hair and I have since used it on my girls to get it out of theirs. But since Lucas is allergic to peanuts I was hesitant. So Wade and I decided to try just a tiny bit( the size of a pea) to loosen up the gum. We weren't going to touch his skin and we would bathe him immediately. BIG MISTAKE!! Within about 3 minutes Lucas was hysterically rubbing his eyes and itching his skin...all over. His eyes were swollen and watery, nose was running, and his skin was totally breaking out. On his shoulder below where I was trying to get the gum out was the worst. I immediately stopped and we bathed him and gave him benadryl. The next morning we gave him a breathing treatment. I'm not sure if the coughing attack was related or not but you never know.
Until now, Lucas has only been affected after ingesting foods he can't have. So now we realize that we have to be way more careful. We don't eat a lot of peanut butter but we do have some in the house. We might have to become a peanut free house!
