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Sue Kelly, BSN, RN

Calling All Nurses: 5 Ways to Take Better Care of Your Food Allergic Patients

September 11, 2018  |  ACAAI, Action-plan, Action-Plan, Adolescents, Advocacy, Allergies, Allergy, Allergy-Awareness, Anaphylaxis, Anaphylaxis-Action-Plan, Awareness, Back-To-School, Blog, Board-certified-allergist, Caregivers, Civil-Rights, civilrights, Elementary, Eosinophil, eosinophilicawareness, Epinephrine, Family, Food, Food-Allergies, Food-Allergy, food-allergy-blog, Know-The-FAACTs, Medic-Alert, Medical-Alert-ID, Medication, Nurse, Nurses, Patient, Pediatrician, readlabels, Safety-Tips, School, School-Lunch, School-Nurse, School-Resources, Secondary, Self-Care, Support, Teens

by Susan Kelly, BSN, RN I’m writing this as both a registered nurse who works for an allergist, and also as a food allergy and EoE mom for over a decade. Nurses are caregivers, teachers, advocates, scientists,

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Back-To-School Blog

The Food Allergy Parent’s #1 Back-to-School Tool: Educate, Educate, Educate!

August 30, 2018  |  Action-Plan, Advocacy, Allergies, Allergy-Awareness, Anaphylaxis, Anaphylaxis-Action-Plan, Awareness, Back-To-School, Blog, Civil-Rights, Civilrights, Elementary, Family, Field-Trips, Food-Allergies, Food-Allergy, Food-allergy-blog, FoodService, Know-The-FAACTs, Label, Medical-Alert-ID, Medical-ID, Medication, Nurse, Safety-Tips, School, School-Lunch, School-Nurse, School-Resources

by Alison Grace JohansenIf you’re a food allergy parent like me, you’re undoubtedly in full back-to-school preparation mode. You’ve probably been planning for quite a while now. Whether we’ve

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Navigating the Emotional Seas of Food Allergies: One Parent’s Journey Towards Resilience

Navigating the Emotional Seas of Food Allergies: One Parent’s Journey Towards Resilience

June 18, 2018  |  Action-plan, Advocacy, Allergies, Allergy, Allergy-awareness, Anaphylaxis, Anaphylaxis-action-plan, Awareness, Blog, Board-certified-allergist, Caregivers, Children, Civil-rights, Civilrights, Education, Elementary, Emotional, Emotions, Epinephrine, Food, Food-allergies, Food-allergy, Food-allergy-blog, Know-the-faacts, Label, Medic-alert, Medical-alert-id, Medical-id, Medications, Patient, Psych, Readlabels, Recipes, School, School-resources, Self-care, Support, Support-group, Tips, Travel, Traveling

by Tamara Hubbard, MA, LCPC As a parent, there are days that are etched in your mind forever. The day your children were born. Their first words. Their first steps. Their first days of school. But when you’re the

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Finding Support for Managing Food Allergies

Finding Support for Managing Food Allergies

April 11, 2018  |  Advocacy, Allergy, Allergy-awareness, Anaphylaxis-action-plan, Awareness, Back-to-school, Blog, Camp-TAG, CampTAG, civil-rights, civilrights, Education, Elementary, Epinephrine, Food-allergy, Food-allergy, Food-allergy-blog, Medications, Patient, School, School-resources, Support, Support-group

by Stacey Stratton, FAACT’s Director of Publications When it comes to managing food allergies, there are a few areas you might feel you need some extra support. Here are just three, of the many areas where

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