Tag: resources for food allergy
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Food Allergies And Medical Trauma
“What do you think she will look like?” I asked my husband while affectionately rubbing my ginormous pregnant belly. He smiled at me, “She’s going to look just like you, Honey.” I remember that sweet comment and that perfect moment so vividly. It was February 2018, and I was due with our first child. Daydreaming…
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13 Food Allergy Back to School Tips
“Katie, go to bed already. It’s almost past midnight.” My husband used to say that to me amusedly the night before the first day of school. We are both educators, so he understood that I was always a bundle of excitement and nerves at the beginning of the school year. I loved setting up my…
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How to Plan a Food Allergy Road Trip
Oh, road trips! How I adore thee…..and dread thee simultaneously. 😂 When I was a kid, long road trips were the absolute best! My parents would wake my brother and I up around 2 in the morning on the day we were leaving. To my dad, beating the traffic was essential. And of course, my…
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11 Ways We Manage Eczema
Eczema is an old family friend. She used to visit me when I was a kid, and now she enjoys random pop-up visits with my daughter. Her stays are way too leisurely and she tends to complicate almost every fun summer activity that I plan. She’s long outgrown her welcome, but sadly, she’s taken up…
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How to Plan a Flight with Food Allergies
“As soon as I saw you, I knew you would be an adventure of a lifetime.” – Winnie the Pooh I love that quote. I feel that exact way when I look at my two children. They are so full of life, eager to learn, and ready to explore all the wonderful places they read about…
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How To Talk To Kids About Food Allergies
I don’t want to scare him. When my son was diagnosed with a peanut allergy as an 8 month old, I was terrified. Suddenly, food was now a threat. I was thrown head first into the world of label reading, hand washing, EpiPen remembering, home cooking, and constantly worrying. But I am his mom. And…
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6 Things No One Told Us About EpiPens
Have any of you seen the 1990 monster comedy “Tremors” starring Kevin Bacon and Reba McEntire? If you have not seen it, I highly suggest adding it to your watch list! There’s comedy, romance, cheesy scares, and just the right amount of character underdevelopment. PERFECTION. To claim that I LOVE this movie series is an…
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How to Make a Food Allergy Emergency Kit
Okay, so I’m 100% that weirdo that literally lives on sci-fi movies. My favorite genre? Alien invasion and monster movies! 😍 Seriously, I want to go make some popcorn just writing about it! One of my all time favorite movies is Tremors II: Aftershocks. It’s about underground monsters that come up through the soil or…
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Quick Guide to Talk About Food Allergies
My family recently moved into a new neighborhood. We’ve loved meeting new neighbors and watching our kids make new friends. However, the topic of my kids’ severe food allergies came up much faster than I was expecting. We were out in our driveway, playing with some sidewalk chalk, when our neighbor’s daughter saw us. She…
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How To Do Playdates With Food Allergies
Have you ever seen that parenting meme that goes, “Currently approving my kid’s friends based on which parents I think will drink coffee with me on playdates”? Pre-kids, I used to sip my coffee, scroll through my morning Facebook feed, and chuckle to myself whenever I saw that meme. Little did I know, I was…