Food Allergies & Children: Pocket Guide for Parents (Allergy Free Table Series)

By Julie Trone

Has your child been diagnosed with food allergies? Do you need support with how to safely feed your family, hire and train a caregiver, have a party, choose a restaurant and go on vacation? Whether your child has a single or multiple food allergies there are lifestyle changes you will need to make to ensure your child's safety from a food allergy reaction. Pocket Guide for Parents contains: helpful stories, tips, facts and resources to help you quickly learn how to safely cook, clean, shop for allergy friendly foods, entertain, choose a restaurant, attend a social event, travel, choose a caregiver, and more... Pocket Guide for Parents: Food Allergies & Children can help you find a new normal way of living with food allergies. In recent years, the number of children with food allergies has gone up dramatically. Of school aged children approximately 1 in 25 have food allergies according to a clinical report from the American Academy of Pediatrics. Not only have peanut allergies, tree nut allergies, and dairy allergies (milk allergies) increased but there are other foods that commonly cause an allergic reaction. The top eight also include soy, fish, shellfish, wheat, and eggs allergies. The danger from eating a food allergen is due to a reaction called anaphylaxis, which is severe and life threatening. Anaphylaxis symptoms can be varied and multiple, for example constricted airway and drop in blood pressure or hives and vomiting. All reactions can be sudden and unpredictable. These reactions result in over 9,500 hospitalizations per year. This convenient pocket sized book can be easily carried in your purse, book bag, and so on by you, family members, friends and caregivers. Keep it handy to provide answers to questions and solve problems when they arise

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1466378107
• ISBN13: 9781466378100
• Release Date: January 2011
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Pub
• Length: 146 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 6.0" x 0.5" x 4.5"