Tag Archives: Brooklyn Allergy Mom
Food Allergy Awareness Week 2013, Food Allergies touch every part of lifestyle
It’s the end of Food Allergy Awareness Week 2013. Food allergies seem to be all around us and actively in a lot of communications, not just in our house, but with others. But for those of us managing the lives of our anaphylactic children, food allergies touch every part of our lifestyle. Food allergies permeate […]
3 Green Products, Cleaning Supplies, Spring Cleaning, Earth Day 2013
Happy Earth Day 2013! In honor of Earth Day, here are three different companies, and my review of their earth-friendly products. The first is ECOS and their fabulous line of green cleaning products, the second is VEGIEFRESH, a new mineral based product that will keep your fruits and veggies fresh without using bags in your […]
Oat Re-introduction, Food Challenge, Food Allergy
Last week, during Passover and before Easter, our teenager and I made the trip via subway to her Allergist for an food challenge to see if we could re-introduce Oats after twelve years of strict avoidance. This decision was made by her Board Certified Allergist after a blood test, which checks for IgE antibodies in […]
Name Bubbles, Labels, Review and Give-away
Name Bubbles (www.namebubbles.com) are waterproof, dishwasher, laundry, microwave safe, and freezer friendly labels that offer a quick and easy solution to keeping track of your family’s things. They began as a way for busy parents to label their children’s lunchboxes, tupperware, bottles and foods while at daycare and camp. What they realized is that those […]
Tapioca Pear Cake Allergy Friendly, Gluten-Free, Five Ingredients
This recipe grew out of my recent meeting of Jenny Sprague, whose blog is Multiple Food Allergy Help . Her food allergic child, who also has cancer, is on a low-foods diet as they try to figure out what foods he can eat. She explained this to me over dinner (dinner at The Strand courtesy […]
Study finds school breakfast is a key to future success
Reblogged from Eatocracy: Breakfast might not just be the most important meal of a child’s day — it might be one of most important meals of their life. A new study released Wednesday by non-profit group Share Our Strength’s No Kid Hungry campaign shows the positive effect that school breakfast can have on a child’s […]
Asthma and Food Allergies: AAFA, KFA Merge
I have served as board chair of Kids With Food Allergies Foundation for the past year and a half, and it is with great pleasure that I’m finally able to blog about the news of the merger (press release here) of Kids With Food Allergies (KFA), and the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America (AAFA). For those of us […]
Roasted Chicken, Recipe, Cybele Pascal’s “Allergy Free and Easy Cooking”
This past month on Brooklyn Allergy Mom’s Facebook Page, I’ve been conducting a give-away of Cybele Pascal’s book Allergy Free and Easy Cooking (available Amazon or at any fine bookstore) published on Ten Speed Press, which, if you read my review of it, is a must-have book for any family looking to get food on the table […]
Epinephrine, Anaphylaxis, Kissing
I was lucky to have been a part of a blogger summit hosted by Mylan, makers of the Epi-Pen® autoinjector of epinephrine (a natural hormone) this week and to have met and listened to the informative research from Dr. Ruchi Gupta, MD, MPH www.ruchigupta.com and Ms. Sloane Miller, www.allergicgirl.com speak about a survey done on, of all topics, anaphylaxis on Valentines Day. […]
