Looking for peanut-free snacks or treats? Dare Foods (available in Canada and the US) offers peanut-free products, manufactured in peanut-free facilities. The Breton Mini Crackers are available in the...

Alice Sherwood's Allergy-Free Cookbook is featured at SfGate.com. The cookbook features recipes which can be made without the "big four" allergens: gluten, eggs, nuts and dairy. Along...

Having food allergies does not mean you have to forgo dining out and stick to self-made meals at home. Granted, you will have less choices and you are upping the risks when you dine out. But with...

Those of us who have or live with people with food allergies know how tricky it can be when we go dining out. It's an anxiety-ridden experience: Is the food safe? Is the food prepared correctly?...

Most allergy medicines work by blocking a chemical produced by the body called histamine, which is what causes allergy symptoms. The more popular brands (generic names in brackets) of antihistamines...

Attention to those with walnut allergies! Bella Cucina is recalling "Death by Chocolate" cookies due to undeclared walnuts. The cookies were distributed in retail stores and gift shops...

There used to be a time when the only type of milk I knew and ever considered drinking was from cows. When my son turned out to have cow's milk allergies, we looked for other options such as...

I have to admit this is the first report I've read of a severe anaphylactic reaction to mustard. Emily's family found out about her allergy to mustard in late 2006, when a slice of bread with...

If you find StuckOnYou labels too cute and fear that people might miss the medical importance of an allergy label, you might opt for the simpler versions you can get from Mabel's Labels (gotta...

I saw an ad for StuckOnYou while I was browsing through a parenting magazine and made a mental note to order some. I need to label my son's school stuff and thought StuckOnYou's designs were...

Tracy, a contributor at the Boston Mamas, shares some tips for parents with food allergic kids when attending or hosting parties. Tracy's son has multiple allergies to milk and milk products,...

In the previous entry, I've discussed going (back) to school and the issue of food allergies. In addition to food allergies, the AAAAI also offer pointers for schoolkids (and their parents) whose...

For many kids, schools starts this month. For parents of children with allergies- whether it's food allergy, insect sting allergy or hay fever- it's an anxiety-filled period. I should know, my...

I was surfing for information on glue ear, when I came across this BBC Health article on allergies. According to Dr. Adrian Morris, you can often spot allergic or potentially allergic children and...

I received an email (presumably from a PR staff) about a press release indicating how MedHelp has brought millions of people to a forum where they can access doctor's advice. According to the...

If it looks like food allergy and feels like food allergy, it is food allergy? Apparently not. Terra Sigillata points to an article on The New England Journal of Medicine about 5 patients who had...

Great news for food allergic schoolchildren in New York! Governor Eliot Spitzer has signed into law the Allergy & Anaphylaxis Management Act of 2007 (AAMA; A.4051), landmark legislation that will...

This article on WDDT (What Doctors Don't Tell You) points to a Lancet article on risk-minimization strategies for peanut allergy. Unfortunately, the publishers are not even showing the abstract...

In one of the online forums I frequent, a mom said that here toddler has taken the habit of clapping her hands on the sides of the head, sometimes, over the ears for no apparent reason. Upon...

All these years of blogging here at Allergizer, I've mistakenly placed entries about dust mite allergies under "Insect Allergies", and it's just now that I've realized what a big...