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1 Lil Tip: Tasting Peanut Butter for the First Time
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2 Get Your Child Tested For Peanut and Nut Allergies
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3 Home Free Treats For Children With Allergies
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4 New Special Shows Day in the Life of a Child With Allergies
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6 Nut and Gluten-Free Building: Gingerbread House Kit For Allergic Kids
Food allergies can be hard to live with. Between reading every ingredient list at the supermarket and being extra careful at restaurants, eating can get complicated. FitSugar reader Mandygm tells us how life has changed since she first found out she had food allergies on her OnSugar blog Allergy A-Go-Go. I am watching and listening to the rain fall and wind gust between claps of thunder right Read more
For the love of gingerbread! Gathering around the table with sheets of gingerbread and bowls of candy is an annual tradition in many families. But for those with food allergies, it can be just another activity they need to sit out of for fear of going into anaphylactic shock. Unless of course, you purchase a safe kit! A&J Bakery, a Rhode Island-based nut and gluten-free bakery that ships Read more
Most kids turn out all right! That's something Dr. Mehmet Oz says nervous new parents should be reminded of. It's important to let children live! The cardiac surgeon and author, whose latest book You: Raising Your Child (The Owner's Manual From First Breath to First Grade) ($14) is a must read, speaks from experience, as he is also a father of four! But, I recently had the chance to chat with Read more
We are all aware of what our lil ones eat, but parents of kids with allergies have to be extra sensitive when it comes to the menu. The rate of allergies has increased over the past 20-30 years and now more than three million kids have them. By the time they enter middle school, one in every 20 kids is watching what she puts in her mouth. Fifty-four percent of LilSugar readers' children attend Read more
Mamas of tots with dairy, nut or egg allergies have a tough time of it when attending birthday parties or simply looking for a baked good to snack on during the day. Most allergy-free packaged goods are lacking flavor and substance and are better left untouched. Home Free Treats puts an end to that kind of thinking. Though the goodies are baked without peanuts, tree nuts, eggs, wheat or dairy Read more
March is National Peanut Butter Month, which means those of us who can enjoy the delights of the creamy and chunky spread will be relishing in salty peanut-infused recipes. Sadly, an increasing number of children have allergies to peanuts or nuts that can be incredibly dangerous and even life threatening. In fact, 50 percent of lilsugar readers say their children attend "peanut free schools." Read more
If it seems like food allergies are everywhere these days, that's because they are. According to a new study from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, food allergies are on the rise, now affecting more than 3 million kids. Approximately one in every 26 children has one, as opposed to one in 29 in 1997. The most common culprits include peanuts, shellfish, milk, and eggs. Amy Branum, the Read more
PB&J, the sandwich that defines childhood, can potentially be harmful if a child is allergic to peanuts. And, because some kids have strong allergic reactions to the nuts — many which involve problems breathing — and chunks of the spread can prove to be a choking hazard, some pediatricians recommend that parents wait until children are 3 or 4-years-old to feed them peanuts and peanut Read more
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