Hike for Lung Health
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Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology recommends if you have a significant food allergy and asthma then carry two doses of epinephrine.
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Twelve investigators have received grants totaling $5 million over two years to lead innovative studies of food allergy. The National Institutes of Health is finally realizing food allergies are a significant health issue.
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NEW SUPPORT GROUP! POCHA NORTHWEST: serving Wauconda, Island Lake, Lake Zurich, Barrington, Hawthorn Woods, Crystal Lake, Cary, Lake in the Hills, Algonquin, and McHenry. Contact: Nancy Wood (enajwood@hotmail.com ) phone # 847-639-0671.
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HB 5338 passed both the House and the Senate but since the Senate added an amendment, the House needs to approve it. It is now in the rules committee. The only way for it to move out of the committee is for Speaker Mike Madigan to call it out of committee. Contact him and urge him to call it the next time the House is in session.
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Fox TV the Simpson's makes fun of food allergies. Click for a synopsis.
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Summer camp? Don't let anyone tell you that they won't give your child epinphrine if needed. The Americans with Diabilities Act Title III states they must give it. Read the Dept. of Justice Guidelines about child care centers. It applies to summer camps too.
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Sample 504 Plans available. E-mail us with your street address and we'll mail you one. Free MedicAlert bracelet for needy individuals through the Food Allergy Initiative and MedicAlert. Click to learn more.
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Report from Washington D.C. Trip with United for Lung Health
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Food allergies and Passover. Download Kids with food allergies booklet.
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IFAEA supports the Healthy Schools campaign and the IL Ass. School Nurses for a State School Nurse Consultant. Many states have one. Read more.
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Check out a gluten free You Tube video for gluten free pizza. Great for teens.
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Malfunctioning immune systems give rise to disease- including food allergies.
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Peanut oral immunotherapy: A possibility according to a report at national meeting of American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology.
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National Food Allergy & Anaphylaxis Management Act has passed the House, has been read in the Senate and is in the committee on Health. Education, Labor and Pensions. Call Sen. Obama and ask him to support it.
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AAAA-I info: Make sure your school knows about the law letting kids carry epinephrine auto-injectors at school. ( Illinois law at: 105 ILCS 5/22-30).
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New Jersey fourth state in the nation to have a school food allergy program. The Gov. recently signed a bill which mandates that the New Jersey Board of Education develop food allergy guidelines and for schools to develop policies.
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Tennessee has a statewide school food allergy program, effective 1-1-2007.
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U.K. just issued a 56-page guideline for restaurants etc. on how to handle food allergies. Great reference for food service at school.
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There is a new food allergy support/advocacy group in the Bloomington/Normal, Illinois, area. We are called Food Allergy Network of Bloomington/Normal (FANofBN). The contact person is Marsha Veninga at FANofBN@yahoo.com.
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Quebec Food Allergy Association released its 2008 edition of its Food Allergy Management Manuel for Restaurants and food Services.
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NEW PRODUCT: Frio Wallet. Keeps an EpiPen cool when the temp. is on the rise.
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Family sues McDonald's for failing to list milk as an allergen and child has anaphylactic reaction.
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National Institute of Health makes food allergy research recommendations.
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Call Wayne Crum at National Insitute ofHealth to tell him what you think about $8 million allocated for food allergy research. He doesn't know people are concerned that $8 mil. is small. 301-435-8585.
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IFAEA President letter to editor of Daily Southtown regarding Nancy Drew movie and food allergies. Nancy Drew and a do-it-yourself tracheotomy for a peanut allergy reaction in the new Nancy Drew movie. Jerry Weintraub is the producer.
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Gurnee Dist. 50 has a new school food allergy policy. Congrats to all who worked hard. It paid off.
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This is sad but not surprising. October issue of Journ. School Nursing found only 15% of students used FAAN's food allergy action plan. IFAEA thinks it's too big and complicated for ER use but IS the best out there. Let us hear your opinion. E-mail us.
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New Study found 11% of college students with a confirmed food allergy and prescription for epinephrine carry their auto-injector. American College of Allergy Asthma and Immunology.
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Don't let your teenager or young adult be sloppy. Use IFAEA's slogan: Think AAA= Awareness, Avoidance, and Adrenaline to educate them. A 25 year old woman who knew she had a food allergy recently died because she had NO epinephrine with her.
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New study: Milk and egg allergy harder to outgrow.
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American Academy of Pediatrics updated advice on feeding small children. Dr. Sicherer helped write the guidelines.
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FDA recalls. Failure to list allergens on labels — or to keep allergens out of foods they're not supposed to be in — accounted for half the Food and Drug Administration's most serious food recalls in fiscal 2007.
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Food Allergy Study
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Alergia a Alimentos
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CONNECTICUT'S 84-page school food allergy guide.
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Chicago Tribune Sunday, 1-28, Travel section has an article on traveling with food allergies.
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IFAEA President's Letter to Editor published in Chicagotribune.com. on Oct. 23 on traveling with food allergies. Submit your comment. Let's get a public discussion going. View the comments..
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Last year a bill was introduced in the IL Senate to eliminate school kids from carrying their Epis at school. Sen. Pamela Althoff introduced the bill. Why would anyone take this away from our kids? Let her know how you feel.815-455-6330. Click to read the bill.
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Health care coverage information. Click on link.
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First Lady Patti Blagojevich announced that all Illinois Schools will get a copy of the School Food Allergy Program from the Food Allergy & Anaphylaxis Network. Does your school have it?
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Peanut allergy vaccines are being researched. See WSJ article.
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Milwaukee Public Schools have a computer card system that alerts cafe staff when food allergic kids are in line.
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Food Allergic teens take risks according to a study from the American Academy of Allergy Asthma & Immunology (AAAAI).
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