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Thankful Things (A Near Death Experience)

October 13, 2014 By Food Retro

Today, I’m thankful that an accident at Thanksgiving didn’t cost me my son’s life. I am thankful to Pfizer, who makes the EpiPen–an auto-injector that may be responsible for the positive outcome of yesterday. I am thankful that my husband remained cool enough under fire and was brave enough to administer my son’s EpiPen while I was calling…

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Filed Under: 1 + 1 = 3, Life With Food Allergies, SLIDER, The Answer is 42 Tagged With: Life With Food Allergies, Tales

How to Be Allergy-Friendly on Halloween (The Everyone’s Happy Edition)

October 8, 2014 By Food Retro

Kids can be surprisingly patient about their food allergy restrictions. Most of the time. Halloween is not one of those times. As far as they’re concerned, Halloween was a holiday invented for the sole purpose of “building character” because “Life Isn’t Fair.” I buy a box of treats specifically to swap for candy that isn’t safe….

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Filed Under: Life With Food Allergies, SLIDER, The Answer is 42 Tagged With: Health & Home, Life With Food Allergies

3 Things You Need to Pack A Travelling Kitchen (Like a Boss)

June 25, 2014 By Food Retro

After my son was diagnosed with severe food allergies, I became something of an antisocial hermit. I hated to eat at other people’s places, I hated dining out, and I really hated having to travel–it inevitably meant that I’d have to do one or both other things, and several times in a row. My family, bless their…

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Filed Under: Life With Food Allergies, SLIDER, The Answer is 42, The Places We'll Go Tagged With: Health & Home, Life With Food Allergies

Tips for Travelling with Food Allergies

March 28, 2014 By Food Retro

When is a vacation not a vacation? When you’re stressing out two to three times every day trying to find a safe place for your family to eat. I am not sure why, but I always have a harder time when I travel in the U.S.A. than when I travel in Canada. The good news…

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Filed Under: Life With Food Allergies, SLIDER, The Answer is 42, The Places We'll Go

The Lowdown on Gluten Free Baking – Guest Author @Moonsoar

March 19, 2014 By Food Retro

I used to bake. A lot. Cookies, cakes, cheesecakes, loaves, muffins, pies, tarts… Especially when there was any kind of occasion – a birthday, a work anniversary, mother’s day, family dinners, getting the laundry done… You did something awesome? We all need to celebrate by eating too much sugar! This all changed when I discovered…

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Filed Under: Life With Food Allergies, SLIDER, The Answer is 42 Tagged With: gluten free, Health & Home

A new Epinephrine Auto-Injector

May 10, 2013 By Food Retro

A set of twins have created a new type of Epinephrine auto-injector called the Auvi-Q (a.k.a. Allerject in Canada). The Auvi-Q’s highest touted feature is that, once removed from its protective case, it provides audible step-by-step instructions.  The Auvi-Q will walk a person through activating, where to site the injection, and also provide a spoken…

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Filed Under: Life With Food Allergies, The Answer is 42 Tagged With: Life With Food Allergies

Allergy vs. Intolerance

May 3, 2013 By Food Retro

Especially in the case of dairy, there’s frequently a confusion over the difference between intolerance and a true allergy.  The big difference:  Immune response. In a food allergy, the immune system treats a food product as a foreign invader in the same way it would for someone with a ragweed or dust allergy.   The body…

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Filed Under: Life With Food Allergies, The Answer is 42

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