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Walmart Teams Up with FAACT’s Teal Ghost for Halloween

October 1, 2018  |  Advocacy, Allergies, Allergy, Allergy-Awareness, Anaphylaxis, Awareness, Blog, Canada, Candy, Children, Epinephrine, Family, Food, Food-Allergies, Food-allergy, food-allergy-blog, Halloween, Holiday, Know-The-FAACTs, Readlabels, School, Support, Traditions, United States, Walmart

by Lisa Horne, Founder of Food Allergy P.I. Blog As a mom, especially a stay-at-home-mom that is a food allergy mom AND a homeschool mom…sometimes I just love to get away and walk the aisles of my local Walmart.

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Sue Kelly, BSN, RN

Calling All Nurses: 5 Ways to Take Better Care of Your Food Allergic Patients

September 11, 2018  |  ACAAI, Action-plan, Action-Plan, Adolescents, Advocacy, Allergies, Allergy, Allergy-Awareness, Anaphylaxis, Anaphylaxis-Action-Plan, Awareness, Back-To-School, Blog, Board-certified-allergist, Caregivers, Civil-Rights, civilrights, Elementary, Eosinophil, eosinophilicawareness, Epinephrine, Family, Food, Food-Allergies, Food-Allergy, food-allergy-blog, Know-The-FAACTs, Medic-Alert, Medical-Alert-ID, Medication, Nurse, Nurses, Patient, Pediatrician, readlabels, Safety-Tips, School, School-Lunch, School-Nurse, School-Resources, Secondary, Self-Care, Support, Teens

by Susan Kelly, BSN, RN I’m writing this as both a registered nurse who works for an allergist, and also as a food allergy and EoE mom for over a decade. Nurses are caregivers, teachers, advocates, scientists,

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Navigating the Emotional Seas of Food Allergies: One Parent’s Journey Towards Resilience

Navigating the Emotional Seas of Food Allergies: One Parent’s Journey Towards Resilience

June 18, 2018  |  Action-plan, Advocacy, Allergies, Allergy, Allergy-awareness, Anaphylaxis, Anaphylaxis-action-plan, Awareness, Blog, Board-certified-allergist, Caregivers, Children, Civil-rights, Civilrights, Education, Elementary, Emotional, Emotions, Epinephrine, Food, Food-allergies, Food-allergy, Food-allergy-blog, Know-the-faacts, Label, Medic-alert, Medical-alert-id, Medical-id, Medications, Patient, Psych, Readlabels, Recipes, School, School-resources, Self-care, Support, Support-group, Tips, Travel, Traveling

by Tamara Hubbard, MA, LCPC As a parent, there are days that are etched in your mind forever. The day your children were born. Their first words. Their first steps. Their first days of school. But when you’re the

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Food Allergies & Field Trips

Food Allergies & Field Trips

May 10, 2018  |  Action-plan, Advocacy, Allergies, Allergy, Allergy-awareness, Anaphylaxis, Anaphylaxis-action-plan, Awareness, Blog, Education, Elementary, Epinephrine, Faaw, Field-Trips, Food-allergies, Food-allergy, Food-allergy-blog, Foodallergyawarenessweek, Know-the-faacts, Label, Medic-alert, Medication, Readlabels, Safety-tips, School, School-nurse, School-resources, Support, Tips

by Stacey Stratton, FAACT’s Director of Publications If your child’s school is planning a field trip, be sure to find out the answers to these 5 things:When, Where, How, What, and Who. By discussing these

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Risk-Taking and Teens with Food Allergies

Risk-Taking and Teens with Food Allergies

September 6, 2017  |  Action-plan, Adolescents, Advocacy, Allergy, Allergy-awareness, Anaphylaxis, Anaphylaxis-action-plan, Awareness, Back-to-school, Behavior, Blog, Board-certified-allergist, Civil-rights, Education, Epinephrine, Food-allergies, Food-allergy, Food-allergy-blog, Know-the-faacts, Medic-alert, Medical-alert-id, Medical-id, Medication, Medications, Patient, Readlabels, Research, Risk, Risk-taking, Self-care, Support, Teens

by Tiffany deSilva, MSW, LSW When you were a teenager, did your mother ever ask you the age-old question, “If all of your friends jumped off a bridge, would you jump, too?” If adolescents answered this

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The Food Allergy Parent’s #1 Back-to-School Tool: Educate, Educate, Educate!

The Food Allergy Parent’s #1 Back-to-School Tool: Educate, Educate, Educate!

August 23, 2017  |  Advocacy, Allergies, Allergy, Allergy-awareness, Anaphylaxis, Anaphylaxis-action-plan, Awareness, Back-to-school, Blog, Civil-rights, Education, Elementary, Epinephrine, Food, Food-allergies, Food-allergy, Food-allergy-blog, Know-the-faacts, Medic-alert, Medical-alert-id, Medications, Readlabels, School, School-lunch, School-resources, Support

by Alison Grace Johansen If you’re a food allergy parent like me, you’re undoubtedly in full back-to-school preparation mode. You’ve probably been planning for quite a while now. Whether we’ve

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How Do You Celebrate Food Allergy Awareness Month?

How Do You Celebrate Food Allergy Awareness Month?

May 14, 2017  |  Advocacy, allergies, Allergy, Allergy-awareness, Anaphylaxis, Asian-fare, Awareness, Blog, diningout, Education, elementary, Faaw, Food, Food-allergy, Food-allergy-blog, Foodallergyawarenessweek, foodservice, label, Nutfree-wok, readlabels, Recipes, school, secondary, self-care, Support

The entire month of May is Food Allergy Awareness Month with the bulk of the activities and special events taking place during Food Allergy Awareness Week, May 14-20, 2017. When we hear about food allergy awareness week

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