If you have life-threatening food allergies, you know the problems with eating out. The thing is: most people who do not have allergies simply don't realize how dangerous it is to eat "just a little bit"! The real understanding of anaphylaxis is behind the growing number of allergen-free food companies. If ...

It's tough if you have latex allergies. You can run into this substance in all kinds of common objects from your household cleaning gloves to kids' rubber toys. It's not even safe to buy a bra! Some brands make use of latex in the elastic - which can be deadly ...

There's no big surprise here: with both food allergies and their severity on the rise, the EpiPen has become a new childhood accessory. You can find it right up there, immediately after the perfect pair of jeans and just before a High School Musical lunch box. EpiPen is the ...

I know parents of children with life-threatening allergies. In some cases, exposure to a minute (and visually undetectable) amount of the particular allergen is enough to cause anaphylactic shock. And that exposure doesn't have to mean ingestion: more and more severely allergic kids can't even touch an amount equivalent to ...

As the winter weather sets in, many North Americans start thinking about trips to sunnier climates. In fact, my allergic family heads south almost every year. We do so with two kids that have dietary restrictions, a son with environmental allergies, and a mother who also has a gluten problem. ...