Socks on the Hands

One of the greatest things as a parent is going to the park and seeing your child slide down the slides and swing while laughing in excitement. Unfortunately, when you have a child with contact allergies that joy isn't possible without creative thinking.
We really wanted our little boy to enjoy what most children get to do for fun. So we figured lets try and cover him up mostly with long pants, closed toed shoes, a shirt and then...what? What to put on the hands of a 16 month old. We searched the Internet and stores for gloves that would fit our little guy. Gloves are not easy to find for little hands, especially in the summer. Our solution was to put little socks on his hands. The amazing thing is that he doesn't even mind having them on him. We only put them one when we are doing something fun where he needs them. It's been really liberating for our little one. We love the socks.

Staying In Hotels

Since we had our son diagnosed with his allergies we discovered that his contact allergies serious limit things that we can or cannot do. Nevertheless, we try to conquer most of the challenges presented to us by his allergies. On of those was to figure out how to stay at hotels. We've discovered that by asking for five or more sheets upon checking in and covering the furniture and the floor with the sheets enables us to let our little guy walk around the hotel room without having a reaction. We also wipe down the tables and or desks in the room.
Usually we also try and get a room with a kitchenette so that we don't have to eat at restaurants while we are not at home. That way we don't have to worry about the whole eating out craziness and difficulties.
All of these percautions have made staying at a hotel much less nerve raking.