Correction: Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology reported a study of severe food allergy and asthma where two doses of epinephrine were required. IFAEA now notes that more studies are needed in order to establish guidelines for prescribing multiple epinephrine auto-injectors.
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Anaphylaxis & Food Allergy Association of MN is collecting e-mails and letters to give at a meeting this week between them and NW airlines. You are encouraged to submit your opinions on the survey page or to airplanes@minnesotafoodallergy.org.
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IFAEA President Julie Campbell is on the School Health Advisory Board for the IL Dept. of Human Services
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Massachusetts trying to train restaurant workers on food allergy issues. You read it in IFAEA's newsletter first!
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Food Allergy Guidelines for Summer Camp
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Scroll down for free downloads of our information.
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Food Allergy death at Edison Regional Gifted school in Chicago.
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Food Allergy and Anaphylaxis Management Act passed.
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Mass. restaurants show why IFAEA wants Chicago restaurants to
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Another question about banning peanuts from airlines. See the post on Cruise Addict. See the inflammatory statements regarding the matter. If we don't speak up we can't educate. Only the kids with food allergies lose.
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New research shows restaurant staff in need of education. UK restaurants sorely lacking. That 's why we want the restaurant staff to
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Emergency Epinephrine Act
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REMINDER: Just because there is a law allowing for generic epinephrine auto-injectors does not mean that YOUR SCHOOL HAS ONE. ASK your school nurse and remind them that 25% of kids who have allergic reactions are undiagnosed. Be awful to be able to have the medicine under the law but decide not to buy it knowing that statistic.
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Two food allergy deaths at schools almost within a year of each other. Unacceptable. If your school doesn't have a non-student specific epinephrine auto-injector maybe they should wake up. If your school doesn't have trained personnel, then maybe they should wake up and get trained.
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Chicago Public Schools will get EpiPens
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Is it Olive Oil or Hazelnut Oil?
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What does the FDA requires on food information labels? Click here to learn.
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Study shows needles in epinephrine auto-injectors are too short for some children.
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SOUTHERN ILLINOIS READERS: NEAR ST. LOUIS: Metro-East FAST (Food Allergy Support Team)
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CDC released the largest study of food allergy patients 18 and under.
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Click HERE for: Allergen labeling issues: recalls of imported food, how to make a complaint because of a food allergy reaction, and how to receive FDA recalls of food with undeclared allergens
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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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New asthma bill for carrying inhaler at schools is now LAW!
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FOOD ALLERGY ACTION PLANS see below and download. FOR SCHOOL nurses and staff
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Fox TV the Simpson's makes fun of food allergies. Click for a synopsis.
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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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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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U.K. 56-page guideline for restaurants explains how to handle food allergies. Great reference for food service at school.
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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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Family sues McDonald's for failing to list milk as an allergen and child has anaphylactic reaction.
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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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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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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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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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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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