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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…
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….
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…