Parents of kids with food allergies- do you travel internationally?
Our family has another trip to France planned this summer and we are all so excited. For the last 5 years we’ve gone every summer for 2 weeks to different parts of France- Southern France near Avignon, the Loire Valley, Normandy, Alsace, and Paris. They have all been unique trips but mostly we have continued going to France because I speak the language there. My twins have severe tree nut allergies and that is the only reason I don’t want to travel to a country where I don’t speak the language. I’ve had many people disregard my concerns by saying, oh, just write down a few simple phrases to give to the waitresses and waiters and you will be fine. But we have gone to Mexico and had some allergy scares. I need to be able to read packaging and I need to be able to communicate with the wait staff how important this is and I need to be able to speak to a nurse or doctor if it comes to that. While traveling to a foreign country is fun, I can’t relax knowing my kids could end up hospitalized there.
So we have only mainly gone to countries where we speak the language. But what we really want is to go to Italy. And definitely Greece. How do other families with kids with severe FA travel internationally? Bring extra Epi-Pens and pray for the best? I see so many parents here talking about their exotic travel locals and I would love to try that but can’t see how I could do that with my twins’ FAs.
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