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How Severe is Your Childs Peanut Allergy?

Recently, while registering my soon-to-be preschooler, the administrators asked me a question that I struggled to answer: “how severe is your son’s peanut allergy”? This innocent question that I get all the time from my friends and family brought back memorizes of when I first found out that my son had an allergy. It was 2009 and... Read moreChevron
posted 06/08/2011, comments (0)|
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Our son is allergic to PEANUTS & being TREATED. See my food allergy blog Just A Little Peanut http://justalittlepeanut.blogspot.com/

Peanut Allergic Child EATS A Peanut as part of Treatment

Peanut Allergic Teenager EATS PEANUT It's Alexander's "Peanut Day". January 27, 2011. Today my son Alexander, a peanut allergic child, is going to eat 1 entire peanut.  The peanut must be average size. Not small and not large. We are ready. I have shelled peanuts the night before in preparation for today's visit to the doctor (... Read moreChevron
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Board Certified Allergist and Asthma Specialist

Food Allergy: Beware of the "Goodnight Kiss"

Mono (Infectious Mononucleosis) has always been dubbed as the "kissing disease" but maybe there is a new ouster.   Reports of severe allergic reactions occurring after a kiss have been published multiple times over the last several years but a recent warning raises further concern. Apparently waiting for hours, or thoroughly brushing your... Read moreChevron
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Peanut Allergy: EPI-Education, Preparation and Identification to Make Halloween Safe

As October 31st draws near, many parents of children with peanut allergies wonder if the terror of the night will come in the form of their child having a severe allergic reaction. Peanut allergy in children has increased over the years. Hospital admissions for food allergic reactions have more than tripled since year 2000. There are 150 to 200... Read moreChevron
posted 10/29/2010, comments (0)|
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Food Allergy: The Peanut-Free Tables are Turned

“…I realize that the more I understand of other people’s difficulties, the less funny they are.” --Joel SteinMany of you will recall that Joel Stein wrote a piece for the LA Times titled “Nut Allergies-A Yuppie Invention” last year questioning the increases in food allergies and attributing this to parents who... Read moreChevron

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