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When Nuts Are Life-Threatening: Family Food Allergies Push Wilton Mom to Action
About 10 years ago, Jenny Wooten Andjelkovic and her family experienced a scare that changed their lives forever. Scare, perhaps, isn’t strong enough a word.
Wilton mom Andjelkovic had just had her third child, another daughter after a girl, then 5, and a son, 3 at the time. She knew her eldest, Bella, had a tree nut and peanut allergy: Eating anything with a tree nut or peanut would result in hives that they had always treated successfully with Benadryl. This time, however, it was different.
Someone had sent a cookie bouquet to the family, and some of the cookies were incorrectly labeled…
