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

August 7, 2019  |  Action-Plan, Advocacy, Allergies, Allergy-Awareness, Anaphylaxis, Anaphylaxis-Action-Plan, Awareness, Back-To-School, Blog, Civil-Rights, Civilrights, Elementary, Family, Field-Trips, Food-Allergies, Food-Allergy, Food-allergy-blog, FoodService, Know-The-FAACTs, Label, Medical-Alert-ID, Medical-ID, Medication, Nurse, Safety-Tips, School, School-Lunch, School-Nurse, School-Resources

by Alison Grace JohansenIf 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 already had

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Field Trips

Food Allergies & Field Trips

May 12, 2019  |  Action-Plan, Advocacy, Allergies, Allergy-Awareness, Anaphylaxis, Awareness, Blog, Caregivers, Civil-Rights, Elementary, Epinephrine, FAAW, Family, Field-Trips, Food, Food-Allergies, Food-Allergy, Food-allergy-blog, FoodAllergyAwarenessWeek, Know-The-FAACTs, Label, Medical-Alert-ID, Medical-ID, Medications, Safety-Tips, School, School-Lunch, School-Nurse, School-Resources, Support, Travel

by Stacey Stratton 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 questions, you’ll help everyone prepare

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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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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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5 Creative Ways to Teach Children about Food Allergies

5 Creative Ways to Teach Children about Food Allergies

August 23, 2016  |  Action-plan, Advocacy, Allergy, Allergy-awareness, Anaphylaxis, Anaphylaxis-action-plan, Awareness, Back-to-school, Blog, Children, Education, Epinephrine, Food, Food-allergies, Food-allergy, Food-allergy-blog, Know-the-faacts, Kyledine, Medications, Nurses, School-lunch, Support, Tips

by Kyle Dine I remember when I was in elementary school, some of my close friends and classmates knew I had food allergies, but they likely didn’t know what exactly that meant. There weren’t too many

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Back-to-School Tips to Help Create a Safer and Smoother Transition into the New School Year

Back-to-School Tips to Help Create a Safer and Smoother Transition into the New School Year

August 8, 2016  |  Action-plan, Advocacy, Allergies, Allergy, Allergy-awareness, Anaphylaxis, Anaphylaxis-action-plan, Awareness, Back-to-school, Blog, Civil-rights, Epinephrine, Food-allergy, Food-allergy-blog, Know-the-faacts, Medications, School-lunch, Support, Tips

by Stacey Stratton, FAACT Publications Manager When your child has food allergies, the start of a new school year can seem scary. It might feel overwhelming as you’re trying to gather different resources and

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Keeping It Fun with Food Allergies

Keeping It Fun with Food Allergies

September 28, 2015  |  Allergy, Allergy-awareness, Anaphylaxis, Awareness, Back-to-school, Blog, Dining-out, Education, Food-allergy, Food-allergy-blog, Know-the-faacts, Recipes, School, School-Lunch

by Keeley McGuireI often think we as food allergy parents take things harder than our children do. We worry for them, cry for them, fight for them. There are times I get upset if she’s left out of an event at

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