Food Allergy

Is This Floor Gluten-Free?

Kelly Dorfman | Posted 05.30.2012

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Kelly Dorfman

The unfunny reality is: For people who react badly to gluten, unclear labeling and convoluted manufacturing practices can turn eating into an extreme sport.

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Michigan Girl, 4, Won't Let Inability To Eat Keep Her From Feeling Full Of Life

macomb.patch.com | Posted 04.16.2012

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It’s been said that the loss of one sense can strengthen another. When 4-year-old Kaitlyn Garon lost the ability to eat, it was her smile that got s...

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How Hidden Food Sensitivities Make You Gain Weight

Mark Hyman, MD | Posted 05.03.2012

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Mark Hyman, MD

No doubt, a severe food allergy is scary. But it's also relatively rare. A much more common scenario is an adult with a low-grade food allergy to say, gluten, who never pinpoints the cause of his misery.

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British Woman Blinded, Paralyzed After Stomach Bug. How Could It Happen?

Posted 01.25.2012

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When 30-year-old Bunmi Sobowale caught a stomach bug during a trip to Mexico in 2004, she never imagined the string of health problems that would ensu...

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Catherine Pearson

Kids' Food Allergies Twice As Common As We Thought

HuffingtonPost.com | Catherine Pearson | Posted 10.01.2011

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Cristina Stainkamp, 42, a stay-at-home mother of three, describes how terrifying it was when her first child, then 18-months, went into anaphylactic s...

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5 Tips For Parenting Kids With Food Allergies

Delia Lloyd | Posted 11.17.2011

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Delia Lloyd

Dealing with food allergies is so woven into my life at this point that I sometimes forget how little the rest of the world knows about them.

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Your Food Allergy Questions, Answered

Health.com | Posted 05.25.2011

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From celebrities shunning gluten to schools banning peanuts, food allergies are all over the news. To get up-to-the-minute info on why so many peop...

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Allergy Council PSA

Alex Grossman | Posted 05.25.2011

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Alex Grossman

Growing up in the 70's, I'd never even heard of kids with peanut allergies. Today, sadly, I know dozens of such children, some of them with life-threatening reactions.

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Does Your Child Really Have A Food Allergy?

Tim Harlan, M.D. | Posted 05.25.2011

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Tim Harlan, M.D.

Children with Atopic Dermatitis have skin that becomes red, scaly or flaky and very itchy in response to irritants.

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Temporary Fix Helps Patients Around Drug Allergy

AP | LAURAN NEERGAARD | Posted 11.17.2011

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WASHINGTON — Having a bad reaction to penicillin as a child doesn't guarantee you're still allergic decades later. And if the oncologist says yo...

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Nut Anxiety: Fueling the Nut-Roasting Flames

Elicia Berger | Posted 11.17.2011

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Elicia Berger

While there is valid concern for the safety of people with food allergies and the consequences of exposure, there is also the observation that the risks of food-related allergies have been over exaggerated

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FDA Is Considering More Specific Food Allergy Warning Labels

AP | LAURAN NEERGAARD | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — It's one of the biggest frustrations of life with food allergies: That hodgepodge of warnings that a food might accidentally contai...

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