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Managing the risk of food allergy

July 31, 2016 By Susannah Fox 9 Comments

Benadryl tablets

When our son was diagnosed with food allergies, we were absorbed into a new way of life, learning the folkways of keeping him 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 wrote […]

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 son 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 son has always […]

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

Food Allergy 101: hold the blah-blah-blah

August 26, 2014 By Susannah Fox 23 Comments

Two Auvi-Q epinephrine injectors - photo by Susannah Fox

UPDATE: FARE has created an excellent 15-minute online class: How to Save a Life: Recognizing and Responding to Anaphylaxis Original post: In a fit of housecleaning last spring, I recycled all my old food-allergy training files since they were 5+ years old. I figured it wouldn’t be very hard to find a good one-pager on […]

Filed Under: peer-to-peer health care, pts as teachers Tagged With: food allergy, peer-to-peer healthcare

20 minutes

May 13, 2014 By Susannah Fox 6 Comments

Grapefruit with telltale circle of an Epi-pen injection site

Food Allergy Awareness Week is May 11-17. I decided to honor it by writing my first public post about being a food-allergy mom. Wendy Sue Swanson, MD, aka @SeattleMamaDoc, is generously hosting it on her blog, where I hope it will reach many, many people. I’d love to hear what you think — about being […]

Filed Under: e-patient stories Tagged With: family, food allergy, Wendy Sue Swanson

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