“Allergy Tales: A Birthday Party”
A local food allergy family, Carey Shoemaker & her husband, have just published our first children’s book: Allergy Tales: A Birthday Party. We struggled to find useful resources that would help us teach our son about his food allergy. Because I couldn’t find what I was looking for, I wrote a book for my son – and we [...]
Four out of every 100 children have a food allergy
The National Center of Health Statistics which is part of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released a study of food allergies in children. The highlights of the study are:
In 2007, approximately 3 million children under age 18 years (3.9%) were reported to have a food or digestive allergy in the previous 12 months.
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