Invaluable Resources, Products & Info

• All About Epinephrine: What It Does in a Reaction, How Long It Lasts, When It Gets Hot or Cold from Allergic Living 
    
• Tips for the Newly Diagnosed from FAACT.
     
• A Guide to Emergency Epinephrine Options (Video, Links and Savings Programs) on SnackSafely.com
     
• I've been seeing a lot about at-home IgG testing for food allergies/sensitivities, and I felt it necessary to share this information from American Academy of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology​: The Myth Of IgG Food Panel Testing  Please, before you do an at-home tests for food sensitivities or allergies, do your research!  You are ALWAYS better off going to a board certified allergist who can help you get a reliable diagnosis and help you with any dietary changes and such.
   
• Ages and Stages of Food Allergy Management is a great article by Gina Clowes published on Allergic Living that every parent of a child with food allergies should read!  It covers what to expect for each age level in regards to how much they should be aware of and be responsible for, and how much the parent should be responsible for.  It is a great way to ensure that food allergic children grow up to be able to live in a world that is sometimes very allergy-unfriendly.
    
• Required Reading With Food Allergies or Celiac Disease
    
• Click here to sign up for recall alerts from the FDA to be sent directly to your email. You can choose as many or as little email notifications as you want. (You can sign up for similar alerts from the USDA here. I also recommend signing up for alerts with FARE/KFA, too.)
     
• Free Food Allergy Guides at Kids With Food Allergies (There is also a ton of other information on Kids With Food Allergies,especially under their Resources tab.). Thank you Caroline of Grateful Foodie for pointing this out!
     
• Asthma Allergies Children This website is a plethora of information on allergies and asthma!
     
• AvoidingMilkProtein.com has some great multiple food allergy blogs listed, as well as lots of specific info to particular food allergies. A great site for more info on avoiding allergens and finding information.
    
• Damage Control - Dealing With An Allergic Reaction by Maya of Maya's Happy Place Thank you, Maya, for these great tips and info!
     
• Free Downloadable Food Allergy Resources from Food Allergy Books
     
• AAFA's Kids With Food Allergies "How To Read A Label For..." Pages: Peanut Allergy, Wheat Allergy, Tree Nut Allergy,Soy Allergy, Milk Allergy and Egg Allergy.
     
• AAFA's Kids With Food Allergies "Grocery Shopping For A Child With Food Allergies" page.
     
• What It's Like To Be An Allergy-Mom by Carissa K. posted on the Huffington Post
    
• FREE Food Allergy Cards from BrokerFish
     
• FARE (Up-to-date allergy information, including food/drug alerts.)
     
• Information on how to get tax breaks on your food allergy purchases! Thank you, Maya!
     
• Free Printables for Kids with Food Allergies from Paper and Pigtails
     
• How To Recognize Signs of Choking And What To Do! by Rebecca of Foodie With Family
    
• Nowfoods.com is a company that is "committed to sourcing the very best natural ingredients for our products, and we choose non-GMO, non-irradiated, and organic ingredients whenever possible." From what I've seen, they have quite a varity of allergy-friendly products out there.
     
• Angel Service Dogs provides dogs that are known as Allergy Alert Dogs, and is absolutely amazing! (To find out more information about service dogs that help with everything from diabetes to blindness to allergies and beyond, Google "service dogs" or "allergy alert dogs" or "dogs for the blind", etc. There are some great services out there that fit a wide range of needs!)
     
• If you are looking for to find a restaurant in your area that offers allergy-friendly items, check out AllergyEats. This is not a guarentee, but it is a place to start! You can search for restaurants in your area by food allergen needs, so that's pretty awesome. They also give you a chance to rate restaurants, offer reviews by customers, tell you other helpful info (i.e. address, distance from you, phone number), etc. A great resource! :)
     
• Snack Safely is a great place to quickly check to see if your potential snack is safe or not for your allergens.|
     
• Ceela Naturals has "gluten, soy, nut, dairy, cruelty free vegan skin care" that is marketed especially to help eczema and atopic dermatitis.  To read my review on some of these products, go here.
    
• Here's another fantastic resource from Caroline of Grateful Foodie about Food Allergen Labeling: Food Allergen Labeling.
    
• Some very helpful information from SnackSafely.com about allergen labeling can be found here.
    
• Looking for allergy awareness/alert badges, t-shirts, aprons, stickers and more?  Check out Lil Allergy Advocates!  They have some amazing stuff!
    
• When Faith and Food Allergies Collide is a must read article by MI Gluten-free Gal!  It echoes so much of what I believe personally.  We'd all agree that the homes of food allergy/intolerant, diabetic, Celiac, etc. kids need to be safe.  We'd also probably argue that schools of said kids also need to be safe.  However, have we ever considered that churches and church activities also need to be safe for these kids?  I think it's time we did...
    
• Ever hear of the Teal Pumpkin Project?  Wonder what it's all about?  You can find out more here from Food Allergy Research and Education: http://www.tealpumpkinproject.org/ If you will be handing out treats at any time during the fall (or are looking for allergy-safe ideas for parties any time of they year), you must check this out!  Every child deserves to be included!  Great resource!
• Avoiding Cross-Contact is a great page on FARE's website about how to avoid cross-contact.  It is definitely a must read!