The new year is a great time to set goals, step things up, and do a little more than you did the year before. For our family that means teaching our son the importance of wearing a medical alert bracelet at all times. We started…
We are excited to bring to you the first of a series of reviews and giveaways for the holidays... The Award Winning BugaBees! Written by Amy Recob, the BugaBees (and BugyBops) books are bright, beautiful and draw the attention of small children quickly. The short…
The food allergy community is mourning the loss of a promising future food allergy advocate, Chandler Swink, a 19 year-old student on full scholarship at Oakland University, who had planned to go into nursing. While the full details surrounding his death are unclear, we do…
With more and more families taking advantage of private practice oral immunotherapy (OIT) treatments across the United States, now available in at least 22 practices, many parents are wondering what path is best for their own child. In addition, friends and family of those with…
I've shed many tears this week while reading the updates of Joseph DeNicola's story. The entire food allergy community is mourning the loss of a boy that most of us never knew, but many of us know all too well. As a food allergy support…
Our child with food allergies turns three this year and when the season began (before we learned about Switchcrafted and the Teal Pumpkin Project), we weren’t quite sure what our approach to trick or treating on Halloween would be this season. Last year, our son…
Halloween night can be a scary time for any kid, but especially for those with food allergies. It isn't just Halloween night, but every Halloween carnival or activity where kids are decorating cookies, bobbing for apples, or darting for dangling doughnuts on a string. Not…
The faint cries gradually become louder as I realize that they aren’t coming from that neglecting mother’s cart at the grocery store… they’re coming from my son’s room. It’s three o’clock in the morning and I am again ripped out of REM sleep for the…
Kids at risk of anaphylaxis can feel more confident about using an EpiPen after viewing this 30 second commercial by Pfizer of Canada. When kids are trained to use their EpiPen injector in case of an emergency, it's not uncommon for them to feel anxiety…
Food allergy bullying can be anything from verbal teasing or exclusion from group activities to even more dangerous situations where an allergic individual is purposely exposed to their food allergen or threats are made to do so. While teasing, exclusion, and empty threats result in…