Crispy Fruit: A Healthy And Crispier Answer To An Unhealthy Snack Food Problem
Finding healthy snacks for children can be a challenge even without additional concerns of an allergic reaction. As families become more active and time constraints make preparing homemade snacks less...
View ArticleEosinophilic Esophagitis: The Growing Food Allergy Threat
There’s a relatively new form of food allergy with a growing number of diagnoses, called eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE). Doctors only started diagnosing EoE about ten to fifteen years ago, and since...
View ArticleFancypants Allergy Friendly Cookies: “Just Like Grandma Used To Make”
Eating the occasional baked treat is a guilty pleasure for many people. But, for people who suffer from food allergies, the risk of exposure to allergens often hidden in baked goods is simply not worth...
View ArticleAllergy Apparel and Food Allergy Chic
Being a new parent can be an exciting yet overwhelming experience. Parents bring home a little bundle of joy who is completely reliant upon them to provide love, shelter, nourishment and protection....
View ArticleA New Way To Satisfy That Craving For The Occasional Treat: Allergen-Free...
Throughout the years, chocolate has gotten a bad rap for being a decadent treat that only serves to destabilize insulin levels and cause weight gain. But while overconsumption of poor-quality chocolate...
View ArticlePeanuttees Is Raising Food Allergy Awareness One T-Shirt at a Time
For new parents, life is filled with unexpected surprises. Many of them are quite wonderful and magical; in fact most of them are. But all moms and dads will inevitably face challenges, some of which...
View ArticleAllerware Appeals to Kids With Allergies While Informing Adults
Parents can’t keep an eye on their children every minute of every day. And most wouldn’t want to even if they could—let’s face it, parents need breaks now and then! But for the parents of Read More The...
View Article“Allergy Fun” Photobook Is Uplifting and Encouraging
Allergy Fun Knows Your Children Are More Than Just Their Multiple Food Allergies Parents of children with multiple severe food allergies can often feel as though these allergies come to define their...
View ArticleFood Allergy Research Discovery Could Lead to New, Effective Treatments
A recent finding from researchers at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center could answer some important questions about severe food allergies and anaphylaxis and even lead to the development...
View ArticleThe Important Difference Between Food Allergy and Food Intolerance
Food allergies are serious. If you are the parent of a child with a true food allergy, you know this already. You know that exposure can lead to serious reactions, even anaphylaxis. Up to Read More...
View ArticlePeanuts on Planes: The Myth of Airborne Allergens
You have probably heard the horror stories about children with extreme peanut allergies having attacks of anaphylaxis on airplanes. A severe reaction is always frightening, but when it occurs up in the...
View ArticleIs it Possible to Reverse Food Allergies?
As a parent, you would love nothing more than to be able to reverse food allergies in your child, to take away the uncomfortable and sometimes life-threatening reactions she has to even minor contact...
View ArticleIs There a Link Between Gluten and Aggression in Children?
Gluten is a popular substance to demonize, and gluten-free foods are all the rage among many consumers. People with celiac disease have a real and often severe reaction to eating gluten, which is found...
View ArticleKeeping a Kid’s Food Journal to Pin Down Allergies
It isn’t always easy or straightforward to figure out what foods cause reactions, especially in a child. Even in the doctor’s office, there is no single definitive test that can tell you your child is...
View ArticleEpinephrine Storage Temperature and Other Requirements for Your Child’s Auto...
Any child at risk for anaphylaxis from a food allergy needs to have epinephrine auto injectors on hand at all times. You, your child, teachers, babysitters, siblings and other people who are around...
View ArticleShellfish and Iodine Food Allergy: Myths and Facts
Iodine is an important nutrient that all people need to have in their diets in trace amounts. This element is an important component of certain hormones and is needed for the thyroid, a gland involved...
View ArticleCould Wearable Technology Save Lives With Early Detection of Anaphylaxis?
Anaphylaxis, the life-threatening reaction that many people with food allergies experience, can be reversed with an injection of epinephrine. But what if the injection comes too late? Every year,...
View ArticleRecognizing Food Allergy Symptoms in Kids
For some children, the presence of a food allergy is obvious. Your child eats a certain food, like a peanut, and immediately he gets itchy, his face swells and he has difficulty breathing. For many...
View ArticleSecondhand Smoke Exposure May Increase a Child’s Risk of Developing Food...
Everyone knows that smoking is harmful to your health, and most people also understand that secondhand smoke harms others. There are so many ways in which cigarette smoke can be harmful, but yet one...
View ArticleThe Rare Case of Food-Dependent Exercise-Induced Anaphylaxis
Food-Dependent Exercise-Induced Anaphylaxis, or FDEIA, is a very rare type of allergic reaction that affects teens and adolescents more than children. The opposite is true of food allergies, which...
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