Pages Tagged “Epi-Pen”
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- Intentionally Contaminated
Food companies are adding sesame flour to foods that didn’t have sesame so they can “comply” with new labeling requirements by always labeling “contains sesame” instead of instead of adding it to their existing cross-contamination protocols. Meaning people with sesame allergy are suddenly finding that foods they used to be able to eat are now […]
- Normal is Weird
The other day I grabbed a coffee and muffin while out walking, and found an out-of-the-way outdoor place where I could unmask and eat without being near anyone else. It was weird! It felt like I was getting away with something. This sort of thing used to be normal, but now it isn’t… and that’s […]
- Preventable Death. From Grilled Cheese.
If you are told a child in your care has a severe food allergy, believe them. Don’t kill a three-year-old with a grilled cheese sandwich.
- Walk for Food Allergy: Studio Edition
Today I joined hundreds of people at the CBS Studios in Los Angeles to raise money for Food Allergy Research and Education through the FARE Walk for Food Allergy. We skipped last year and decided to join this year’s event at the last minute. Rather than walking along the shore at Long Beach, this year’s […]
- Why would you risk eating out with a food allergy?
Someone always asks this. It’s like asking why, if a car could kill your child, you would cross the street with them instead of keeping them home?
- 20 Days of NaBloPoMo 2015
Things I learned by trying (and failing) to write a blog article every day for a month.
- Epi-pen How-To
A diagram of how to administer an epi-pen to someone experiencing severe anaphylaxis as a result of a food allergy, bee sting, etc.
- What people don’t do after allergies send them to the ER
Study: Only 54% of people experiencing an ER visit for anaphylaxis get an epinephrine injector, and only 22% see an allergist within the next year. Scary.
- Going to the ER at Comic-Con: Not the Peanuts I was Expecting
You don’t expect to find peanuts in coffee, but two sips were enough to put me in an ambulance and wipe out an entire afternoon of Comic-Con.
- Promising Peanut Allergy Treatment
Studies of sublingual desensitizing treatment for peanut allergy show promise, with 70% of participants able to handle the equivalent of two peanuts after a year.
- I knew those looked familiar!
These are the voyages of the starship Epinephrine. Please help support its continuing mission.
- Ticked off by Meat Allergy
People are becoming allergic to meat after tick bites.