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Food Allergies and Family History

There are many reasons why knowing your family health history is important to taking care of your own health and the health of your children. Understanding certain health risks comes from knowing your family’s health history going back a generation or two. For food allergies, however, it is only important to know what you and your baby’s other parent are allergic to. Children with a parent who is allergic to a food are twice as likely to develop an allergy to that food than children without an allergic parent. If both parents are allergic to a food, than the baby … Continue reading →

How to Survive a Wedding With Food Allergies

Your daughter has been asked to be a flower girl. Or, maybe your son has been asked to be a ring-bearer. If your child has severe food allergies, you may wonder if it will be safe for him or her to attend the wedding reception. Here are some tips about how someone with food allergies can survive a wedding. When my sister told me she was getting married, she asked me to be a bridesmaid. Of course, I said yes. In the back of my mind, I was already trying to figure out how I would make it through the … Continue reading →

Magazines for Parents of Kids With Special Needs

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Have you ever flipped through the parenting magazines while waiting for a doctor’s appointment? Parents of children with special needs often find that the parenting experiences described in those magazines does not match up very well with your life, or with the special needs of your child. Fortunately, there are plenty of parenting magazines that were designed for parents of children who have a specific special need. Parenting Children With Special Needs is a free magazine that is distributed in the Kansas City area. It is bi-monthly. If you live in that area, you can pick up the magazine from … Continue reading →

A Child Who Truly is Allergic to All Foods

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Have you ever felt as though your child was “allergic to everything”? It’s not unusual for parents to feel that way if their child has severe food allergies to multiple foods. Your child is not truly allergic to everything, though. A boy in South Australia, however, actually is allergic to all foods. A five year old named Kaleb lives with his family in Adelaide, South Australia. He has a somewhat perplexing and rare condition that it took doctors a while to figure out. In short, Kaleb is allergic to all food. Testing is still being done to try and figure … Continue reading →

One Out of Every Twelve Kids Has a Food Allergy

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Does your child have a food allergy? Then he or she is not alone! A study has found that one out of every twelve children very likely has an allergy to at least one food. This is a higher amount than was previously recognized. An online survey that was lead by Dr. Ruchi Gupta, from the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago finds that food allergies in children are much more common than people realized. In the past, it was estimated that in the United States there were somewhere between 2 and 8 children, out of every 100, … Continue reading →