Hmmm - there is the possibility that what he ate triggered the reaction. It
is possible for there to have been some contamination of the meal (e.g.,
use of a spatula on a cheeseburger and then a hamburger). Cooking odors are
less likely, since there's very little cooking of the dairy products and
there's some pretty hefty ventilation in the kitchen.

In general, though, anything that goes airborne that is an allergen can
affect an allergic person. The extreme case that Laurie mentioned is among
the most dangerous: the inhalation of an allergen directly into the
airways. She's lucky the reaction wasn't worse!

My son had one of his most powerful asthma episodes when he played near
some fish being broiled *with a mayonnaise coating*. He's just as
hair-trigger allergic to eggs (topically, too) as your child is.



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