Following on from her last blog, Teresa Buckle, who has two children with severe allergies, explains why her dream break was so nearly the holiday from hell…
So, we were after a family holiday – somewhere hot where we could have a great adventure. And we found Gambia, which looked brilliant in the brochures. It was in our budget and had beautiful beaches. Perfect, we thought.
I am a member of a few allergy internet forums and it was only when I was reading other people’s posts that a major problem became obvious. Everyone kept mentioning the local dish. It contained NUTS. A bit of an issue when your son has a severe allergy.
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We were so close to booking the trip and nowhere in the travel blurb did it mention this or give warnings for people in our situation. There was no way we would have been able to avoid peanuts if we had gone out there and we couldn’t have been certain they would understand our dietary needs, too. I think cross-contamination would have been inevitable.
It is scary to think that so many holiday destinations could be full of hazards like this. I’m just glad the people on the forum told me in no uncertain terms not to risk Gambia and to look elsewhere. They definitely don’t put this kind of information in the holiday brochures!
By Teresa Buckle – an adventure-seeking mother of 2 kids with severe food allergies