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When you have food allergies, traveling abroad can feel like stepping into the unknown—especially if you don’t speak the language. Telling servers at your local restaurants is hard enough, but a language barrier makes it even worse. You’re already navigating new foods, unfamiliar customs, and different allergy labeling laws, and the last thing you want…
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I personally love Halloween. I once dressed up as a minion, M&M, scary cheerleader, and even once as a gumball machine!! But…for those with food allergies, it’s all fun and games until the treat part arrives. If you have a nut allergy, you know just how hard it is on Halloween to make sure the…
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I love food. Sushi, Mexican, Hibachi, any cuisine possible. Going out to eat should be fun… but when you have food allergies, it’s not as simple as just picking the tastiest thing on the menu. It’s reading between the lines. It’s wondering if that “special sauce” is actually safe. It’s trying to ask the server…
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Back to school season usually means shopping for new notebooks, pens, and maybe a cool first-day outfit. But… if you have food allergies, it also means making sure you’re safe. Not so much now, but especially when I was younger in elementary school, kindergarten – 5th grade, from school lunches to awkward class parties with…
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As someone with food allergies, one thing I always do before eating something is reading the food label and ingredients list thouroughly. Reading these food labels are a critical part of avoiding allergens and preventing allergic reactions. Reading a food label for allergens is completely different from what you and others might be used to.…
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Since 2024, about 5.6 million teenagers have jobs, with restaurants being the largest employer. For teens with food allergies however, this can be a real challenge. Places like ice cream shops and bakeries may seem like the dream job, as for example, to me and many others, scooping up ice cream sounds way more fun…
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Anyone with an allergy knows just how difficult, at times, it can be to find good-tasting allergen-free snacks or desserts. Especially when it comes to finding a good filling protein/granola bar. This can make snack time tricky, but luckily, there are some amazing food brands that focus on creating tasty, safe options for those avoiding…
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Baseball’s draw is not just for the sport, traditions, and players themselves. It’s amazing, crazy, and fun food serves as its own humongous attraction. Whether it be hot dogs, hamburgers, baseball cap nachos, huge soft pretzels, or ice cream in a baseball cap, it all sounds AMAZING!! Well, just until you sit down in your…
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. Over the past 10 years, very significant advances have been made in the field of food allergies and immunotherapy. Mainly with efforts focusing on allergen exposure orally. Oral immunotherapy (OIT) and Sublingual immunotherapy (SLIT) are the two treatments that have been most intensely studied and approved recently. Immunotherapy is done through ingesting, at first,…
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When you think of pesto, you probably picture a classic green sauce made with basil, garlic, parmesan, pine nuts, and olive oil. But for those of us with nut allergies, this one ingredient of pine nuts is a complete dealbreaker.The good news? You don’t need these pine nuts to enjoy the fresh and wonderful flavor…
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