The October issue of the Archives of Disease in Childhood has new recommendations for general pediatricians and family physicians for diagnosing and managing infant cow's milk protein allergy (CMPA). Statistics indicate from 5 per cent to 15 per cent of infants have a reaction to cow's milk protein, while true ...

As if allergies weren't enough to scare you off food in a package forever, you now have to be a world news expert to keep your children safe. The latest problem is melamine. As I mentioned in a previous posting on food recalls, it was only a matter of ...

If you think that pasta - real, mouth-watering pasta - has left your life forever with your gluten allergy or celiac diagnosis, you're wrong. Just today, I went hunting for someone, somewhere, who could tell me about making my own homemade pasta, and I stumbled upon Gluten-Free Girl. You ...

Does it ever drive you nuts that all the coupons that arrive at your door, or are sent in your local newspaper, are for products that no one with allergies would ever eat? Well, an allergic entrepreneur has started up a website that actually features online coupons targeted at the allergy ...

This morning, my son woke up with the dreaded black circles under his eyes. Of course, we'd been away for the Canadian Thanksgiving weekend. We were visiting a beloved set of grandparents, who enjoy treating both grown-ups and kids with goodies of all sorts. Of course, he'd had a few ...