Children with Food Allergies

From keeping safe in school to learning to identify allergens, parenting a child with food allergies can be a challenge. Learn more about allergy safety, common food allergens for children, and how to manage food allergies.

Raising a Peanut-Free Kid: Managing Peanut Allergies in Children

Tips for raising a child who has a food allergy to peanuts. How to manage a child's peanut allergy at home, school, in restaurants, and traveling.

Safety Tips for Kids with Food Allergies

How do you keep kids with food allergies safe when they re away from home? Dropping your child off at school, daycare, or camp means that you are...

Food Allergies in Schools

Managing food allergies in school? Your back-to-school checklist for allergic school students.

Spooky but Safe Trick-or-Treating for Kids with Food Allergies

Halloween can be a scary time for parents of children with food allergies. Allergens are everywhere not just in those tiny fin-sized candy wrappers, but on the hands and faces of other children who nibbling candy as they go door to door. Yet kids with food allergies need to participate in normal kid activities. It s our job as parents...

Food Allergies in Schools

The growing number of children with food allergies means that schools and parents are having to work harder to keep children safe in the classroom.

Halloween Parties for Kids with Food Allergies

Suggestions on how to host a Halloween party for children with food allergies, including invitations, games, decorations, and goody bags.

8 Picture Books about Food Allergies

Children need to see themselves reflected in the literature they read. Unfortunately the presentation of food allergies in much of children's literature is negative. Here are eight books with positive characters that have food allergies.

Be Inclusive of a Child with Food Allergies - How to Be Inclusive of Children...

How to welcome and include a child with food allergies into a classroom, club, or social event.

Food Allergies in Infants and Children

Parents of kids with food allergies have the challenge of teaching children -- often from a very young age -- to manage a chronic health condition while maintaining a positive attitude. At the same time, there are often constant issues with keeping kids safe in social settings, training babysitters and school personnel to recognize and manage food allergies, and maintaining family normalcy dur…

Child Food Allergies - Teaching Your Child About Food Allergies

How are you teaching your child about food allergies? Share your strategies with other parents and caregivers here.

Strategies for Food Allergy Safety at School

Pros and cons of common strategies for keeping children with food allergies safe at school.

7 Questions to Ask about Summer Camp with Food Allergies

How to decide if a summer camp will be safe for your child.

Social Events with Food-Allergic Child - Social Events and Child with Food...

Readers share stories and tips on navigating social events with a child with food allergies

Is It Possible for My Child to Outgrow a Food Allergy?

Find out whether it's possible for your child to outgrow a food allergy, and how your allergist is likely to monitor your allergic child going forward.