Preliminary RESULTS: 2010 Food Allergy Survey
The 2010 Food Allergy Statistical Study has been very useful in collecting quantifiable data regarding food allergies and confirming some of what we already know to be true. Tremendous thanks to everyone who responded to the survey. Your information will be useful in creating programs for FA families and supplying talking points to our elected [...]
New KFA Resource Center
Quick links to a new parenting resource page:
http://www.kidswithfoodallergies.org/resourcesnew.php
Navigating our way through the Holidays
The holidays are trying times for food allergy parents. We manage our children just fine 300 days out of the year and then the last 60 are filled with what my husband and I refer to as ” The Negotiation.” There is no negotiating in food allergies.
Please follow the link below to M. Carolyn Black’s article [...]
Support Groups
The Food Allergy and Anaphylaxis Network (FAAN) www.foodallergy.org
WNY Food Allergy Connection allergy@roadrunner.com
There are also sub-support groups in the north and south towns of WNY. For further information please email either the WNY chapter or www.CleanOutthePantry.org
Time to Clean out the Pantry
Your child has been diagnosed with a food allergy and the diagnosis has yet to sink in, but the product that caused all the excitement in the first place is still in your home. Slowly, the realization arrives, cross contamination. Was the peanut butter knife in the jelly? Was the measuring cup used for peanut [...]