Being Empowered by Life Threatening Food Allergies and Girl Scout Cookies
My Daughter's Girl Scout Cookie Monster Outfit Thanks to her Auntie There were big obstacles in our way to getting my daughter involved in Girl Scouts. My daughter’s health hurdles and life...
View ArticleWhen Food Allergies Make Your Child Feel Like an Outcast at School
Sometimes, no matter what you do for your child with life threatening food allergies, there will be mistakes at School. Thankfully, nothing physically happened to put her in danger but it was going...
View ArticleHalloween with Food Allergies: Tips on making the most of it!
Managing food allergies and holidays is tough but, I wasn’t going to allow food allergies to hold my kids back. This is how we make it work! Tips On Having a Safe and Fun Halloween with Food Allergies...
View ArticleLife Threatening Food Allergies and Painful Eczema – A Ten Year Journey That...
You Don’t Expect This with your Infant Food allergies are not unknown to me as I have battled my own minor allergies and watched my brother struggle with his allergies and eczema our entire childhood....
View ArticleSevere Egg Allergy, Food Challenges and Overcoming the Impossible
Everyone Has Misconceptions About Egg Allergies… Even Me When I was a kid I knew my brother, some cousins and a few friends had an egg allergy. I remember one of my cousins telling me that she can’t...
View ArticleChronic Urticaria (Hives) and How My Daughter Deals With It Better Than I
Earlier I posted a picture of my daughter’s urticaria aka hives on Instagram. It’s not my usual funny faces, nature and random acts of silly I put out there but there was a reason. I got some amazing...
View ArticleThe Ridiculous Things People Say About Food Allergies and How to Deal with It
Walk a Mile in My Shoes or… Not? It has been said many times, “No one understands what severe food allergies are like until they experience it themselves.” But, I think it’s more accurate to say that...
View ArticleYour Birthday Cupcakes Are NOT More Important Than My Daughter’s Life
When a food allergy debate pops up on the interwebs I start getting flooded with links and my awesome people asking me how I feel about it or asking if I will chime in. The scenario is usually the...
View ArticleHow I Successfully Manage Food Allergies and Classroom Parties
Photo Credit: Amazing and Atopic – THANK YOU! After the interwebs uproar over everyone’s right (or not) to party in the classroom I decided to finish this article I started writing awhile ago. This is...
View ArticleInfant Food Allergies – Here We Go Again
When my now twelve year old daughter was a month old she broke out in hives and had difficulty breathing after I nursed her. That was when our food allergy adventure began. Severe allergic reactions...
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