Filipa's story
Hello. My name is Filipa and I am a proud mum of three beautiful little girls. Carmo is the eldest and is now 8 years old. Carmo has a life threatening allergy to cashew nuts and pistachio. We discovered Carmo’s allergy when she was two years old. Carmo was a happy baby although she was often with watery eyes, constipated and suffered from eczema on her face for a long period (only went away with cortisone). When she was bitten by mosquitos she had always very big skin reactions and once we ended up staying at home with her for several days and the pediatrician checking her every day. Carmo was our first baby, so we took all these little things as “normal” baby things. It was January and Carmo had just had her second birthday and we went visiting a friend for lunch. He had a bottle of a cashew drink on the kitchen table and I asked him to try. Carmo was seated on my lap and demonstrated signs that she wanted as well to try and trying to grab my small cup. So I had some to ch...