Food Allergy Alert — kids epipen case
Keep children with food allergies safe.
Online surveys continue to demonstrate the need to help educate parents of food allergic kids about the importance of reading labels, teaching their children how to avoid food allergens, and ensure they have immediate access to life saving epinephrine at all times.
A survey, conducted by Harris Interactive and commissioned by Mylan Specialty, included more than 300 U.S. parents of children with life-threatening allergies and found that nearly 90% of their children have holiday events planned with friends and family or at school. When self reporting about habits surrounding how they help prevent or prepare for anaphylaxis, less than...
Is your school ready for students with peanut and food allergies?
It seems like no matter how much time goes by, when a child enters Kindergarten, the concept of peanut free schools either look like a thing of the future or the past. Does the concept still exist? Is trying to educate teachers about food allergens getting easier or just as much as a challenge as it was ten years ago?
It seems that the best choice for parents no matter how many years go by or how many schools are implementing "special " efforts is to teach your child how to live with food allergies.
This is the story of how...
Allergy to milk and "dairy free" foods.
Allergic to milk? Watch out for products labeled as "non-dairy", "lactose free" and/or "milk free" are not always milk-free.