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A deep dive into food allergy research and education

November 8, 2018 By Susannah Fox 21 Comments

Cartoon: One woman says, "Food allergies are all in your head." Other woman replies, "No, in my head I'm punching you in the face."

Longtime followers of this blog know I believe in the power of peers, particularly among people living with rare conditions, and may also know that I am a food-allergy mom. This past weekend I had the chance to attend the annual conference for my rare community, FAREcon, and drink from the peer advice well. Warning: This […]

Filed Under: patient networks, peer-to-peer health care, research issues Tagged With: food allergy, Rare Disease

Back to school with food allergies

September 5, 2017 By Susannah Fox 7 Comments

A child walks down a sidewalk in the early morning sunlight

Food-allergy parents all over the U.S. are engaging in our particular back-to-school rituals: gathering signatures on forms, packaging up emergency medications (one for the nurse, one for the classroom, one for the backpack…), and stocking up on lunchbox essentials. But what about the teachers? How are they preparing? I’d never considered it until my niece […]

Filed Under: positive patterns Tagged With: food allergy

Managing the risk of food allergy

July 31, 2016 By Susannah Fox 9 Comments

Benadryl tablets

When our child was diagnosed with food allergies, we were absorbed into a new way of life, learning the folkways of keeping our baby safe. We labeled every jar and can in our pantry and fridge so that anyone who visited could see at a glance what was safe (green) or unsafe (red). Like Curtis Sittenfeld, who […]

Filed Under: peer-to-peer health care Tagged With: food allergy

How my food-allergy community “flips the clinic”

May 11, 2015 By Susannah Fox Leave a Comment

May 10-16, 2015, is Food Allergy Awareness Week. I am grateful to the women (and a few men) who help me care for my child with food allergies. I’ve never met most of them in person, but they are there for me, 24×7, answering questions and sharing resources.

Filed Under: e-patient stories, patient networks, peer-to-peer health care Tagged With: food allergy, Stanford Medicine X

Thank you, Sean Parker

December 22, 2014 By Susannah Fox 2 Comments

Today: When I was your age there were no food allergies. Someday: When I was your age there were food allergies.

I have a new essay up on Medium: Thank you, Sean Parker. I tell why I’m so grateful to him for his gift to food-allergy research and l share a little bit about why I don’t read comments on food-allergy stories. Also: please check out more cartoons by Tiffany Glass Ferreira — she is awesome:

Filed Under: key people, positive patterns Tagged With: food allergy

The Teal Pumpkin Project

November 12, 2014 By Susannah Fox 10 Comments

I live (mostly) by Michael Pollan’s advice to “eat all the junk food you want as long as you cook it yourself.” But Halloween is an exception. We live in a Sesame Street-like townhouse neighborhood in Washington, DC, so my kids can easily hit 100 houses while trick-or-treating. The candy haul is epic. My food-allergic child has […]

Filed Under: positive patterns, social media Tagged With: food allergy

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