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Happy May Awareness Month. Let’s Educate!

May is Awareness Month for the trio of food allergy, celiac disease and asthma. We encourage you to educate others about these important and often misunderstood diseases. And we’ve got terrific articles and posters to assist your advocating efforts.
Great New Articles
From Our Website Relaunch

• From the Newly Diagnosed Section of our relaunched website: Preparing to Visit the Allergist, What to Know about Food Allergy Testing; All About EoE; All About FPIES. read

• From our site’s new Students’ Corner: Food Allergy & the Teen Brain; Fallout of Faking Food Allergy; Teenage EMT: I’m Not Invincible, and lots more. read

• Parenting Section: Don’t miss our Field Trips & Food Allergies article. read

Awareness Toolkit

Our toolkit rounds up top resources and events.

Plus, see the 2017 list of buildings that will light up in teal in honor of allergy awareness. 
 
Powerhouse Posters

Six That Save Lives: Vital emergency share tool.

I Am a Child with Food Allergies: Choice of posters includes one you can customize for your child! 

Snappy Comebacks: Wise retorts to food allergy doubters.
Raising the Bar on Celiac


• 15 Big Celiac Questions: From recurring symptoms to supplements and gluten-free diet solutions, three experts tackle  readers’ top celiac questions. read

• Celiac Awareness Month Resources: Beyond Celiac offers up great tools, including infographics, podcasts, a GF e-cookbook, symptoms checklist and gluten-free giveaway. read

FARE Honors 8 Leaders

From the restaurateur whose bistro is free of seven top allergens plus gluten, to the young author and illustrator of The Anteater That Couldn’t Eat Ants, Food Allergy Research & Education (FARE) celebrated leaders in the food allergy community during the FARE National Food Allergy Conference. Meet the eight outstanding recipients of the 2017  FARE Vision Awards.
Our Go-To Asthma Guide

Allergic Living’s Claire Gagné has created a guide to help those with asthma sleep, live, work, play and, most importantly, breathe better. The key here is control. As one expert says: "If they know their triggers, they can find control and reduce medication." read
   

NEWSREEL
Family sues Boston swim club, alleging they were kicked out after 10 years over son’s peanut allergy.
Researchers discover enzyme in saliva that breaks down gluten.
Sanofi launches suit accusing Mylan of illegal tactics to block Auvi-Q auto-injector.
Breastfed babies found to have less wheeze, lowering their asthma risk.
Expert Advice: How often to retest a child for food allergies?
       

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Our Stellar Summer Mag!

• Cover: Eczema's Care Revolution ­– Meet the researcher behind a new biologic drug, and the patients freed from lives of relentless itch. There’s the attorney who never slept and the harpist who couldn't abide gowns and had
to abandon her career. Now, they have lives they’ve never known. Plus,
learn of other therapies in the eczema pipeline.

• Allergies & Your Summer Job ­– Finding work as a food-allergic teen requires creativity and thinking outside the fast-food box. 

• Celiac's Link to Eating Disorders – Medical writer Kate Johnson investigates this perplexing relationship.

• Salads with Sizzle ­– We bring you a divine Mediterranean cobb salad, a wedge with edge, a taco-inspired dish and more summer fare.

Subscribe by May 19 to get the Summer Edition with a new subscription.

 

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