 Mia Silverman is allergic to over 50 things and needs to take her EPI pen with her everywhere she goes. Her life-threatening allergies include nuts, seeds, dairy, fish, and multiple different types of fruit and vegetables, which means she's struggled to lead a 'normal life' just trying to stay alive. Just a bite of chocolate or sip of coffee could cause her to have a life-threatening reaction, which was an almost weekly occurrence during her childhood. The extremes she has to go to avoid having a reaction have left the 20-year-old feeling like an outcast in the past, given the fact that her allergies make it very hard to have a safe meal out or socialise with friends. She can also develop a new allergy at any time but says the hardest about dealing with all this was growing up feeling like an 'outsider', which left her with lasting anxiety and depression. Mia in hospital (Picture: @theallergicgirl / CATERS NEWS) Mia, from Boston, USA, said: 'I really struggled in school and my mental health suffered. I faced a lot of bullying all the way to high school. 'I'm better now, but when I was a kid, it was really difficult – always having the fear that anything I ate could potentially kill me. 'Every time I went to a party, I'd have to take my own food and my own little cupcake, which sucks when you feel like you can't participate in anything. 'A lot of my family excludes me, and they've been ignorant about it. I've had family who've witnessed me experience anaphylaxis in a restaurant and go to hospital, but they've been convinced that what I went through was made up in my head. To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video 'When I was young, I sat at the peanut-free table and no one wanted to sit there with me, which really was difficult. Lots of kids would make fun of me and make jokes about sneaking nuts into my food to see what happen){kind=link}
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Mia Silverman is allergic to over 50 things and needs to take her EPI pen with her everywhere she goes.
Her life-threatening allergies include nuts, seeds, dairy, fish, and multiple different types of fruit and vegetables, which means she’s struggled to lead a ‘normal life’ just trying to stay alive.
Just a bite of chocolate or sip of coffee could cause her to have a life-threatening reaction, which was an almost weekly occurrence during her childhood.
The extremes she has to go to avoid having a reaction have left the 20-year-old feeling like an outcast in the past, given the fact that her allergies make it very hard to have a safe meal out or socialise with friends.