Find out more about food allergies and the potentially life-threatening reactions they can cause, and find additional re...Find out more about food allergies and the potentially life-threatening reactions they can cause, and find additional resources in the freedible community for everything from diagnosis to keeping safe without letting your food allergies hold you back!More
I don’t wish a food allergy on anyone! But since my baby girl is stuck with multiple food allergies, I find it helpful to recognize how her challenging journey has also contributed in some way to her beautiful and strong character - her resilience, her perspective, her ability to walk her own walk despite what the crowd is doing , her compassion for others, and most pragmatically, her resultant vigilance about what she eats. "Her Quivering Lips", one of my recent blog posts describes how...I don’t wish a food allergy on anyone! But since my baby girl is stuck with multiple food allergies, I find it helpful to recognize how her challenging journey has also contributed in some way to her beautiful and strong character - her resilience, her perspective, her ability to walk her own walk despite what the crowd is doing , her compassion for others, and most pragmatically, her resultant vigilance about what she eats. "Her Quivering Lips", one of my recent blog posts describes how even her experiences of exclusion and anxiety - the kind known to allergy sufferers everywhere - have also seeded growth, resilience, kindness, compassion and vigilance. Check it out and sign up to follow my blog! More
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There's an interesting new study out saying 3.6% of all Americans have a "food allergy or intolerance," with the most prevalent being shellfish!
{As a side note, I quibble a bit with the coverage here because they "define allergy as any adverse reaction" but only list the ones most classically associated with allergy (including hives & anaphylaxis) and not ones like G/I reactions that are associated with intolerances. Thus, it seems likely to me that actually the number of "food allergies...There's an interesting new study out saying 3.6% of all Americans have a "food allergy or intolerance," with the most prevalent being shellfish!
{As a side note, I quibble a bit with the coverage here because they "define allergy as any adverse reaction" but only list the ones most classically associated with allergy (including hives & anaphylaxis) and not ones like G/I reactions that are associated with intolerances. Thus, it seems likely to me that actually the number of "food allergies AND intolerances" may well be far higher than 3.6% - but anyway, here it is!}More
A new study by researchers at Brigham and Women's Hospital finds that women and people of Asian descent are the most at risk and that shellfish is the most common allergen....
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Happy Memorial Day weekend, everyone! It's the kick off for the summer grilling season - how are you keeping everyone safe at community festivities this weekend?
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