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"How To Manage Your Child's Life-Threatening Food Allergies: Practical Tips For Everyday Life" provides the step-by-step information you need to create a safe and enjoyable home, school and social life for your food-allergic child. The book includes hundreds of easy-to-read tips and numerous real-life examples, checklists and sample forms.
You'll learn the nitty-gritty details of how to handle common situations, and be warned of potential dangers you may not have considered. The book answers all of your questions, including: How do you determine which foods are "safe" for your child and which are not? How do you teach others about your child's allergies? How do you turn your home into a "safe haven"? What do you need to know to create a safe school and day care environment? How do you handle children's birthday parties, family get-togethers, guests in your home, etc.? How do you safely travel? Or go to a restaurant? What potential hazards are lurking at the playground, the movie theater or your child's best friend's living room? What about sports, camp, Scouts and other extracurricular activities?
For those who live outside the U.S. - or are planning to travel outside the U.S. - the book also includes information particular to food allergy management in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom. Easily identifiable "International Perspective" tables with country-specific information are found throughout the book.
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0
YOU SHOULD BUY THIS!!!!!:
Already, a few of the tips in this book have saved us from some very dangerous situations that we would not have known to be cautious of. I HIGHLY suggest that if there is anyone in your family with serious food allergy issues you get this book and read it, then pass it along to others in your family or your child's caretaker to read. GREAT PRODUCT!!!
Comprehensive, Empowering, Practical and Easy on the Eyes:
The author covers just the right amount of key information in one place. This book covers how to prepare for food allergic emergencies, what you can expect or should be ready for during social situations, doctor visits, travel, day care, school, and even how to create safe lunch environments for the food allergic child; these among many other safety tips printed therein. She covers how to get involved and be proactive in your child's safety management and ends the book with appendices packed full of... more info
Best Allergy Book Ever!:
This book should be read by every parent with a child who has food allergies. It tells you how to cope, survive and enjoy life with a child with food allergies. It is simply the best book written about children with food allergies.
Good basic book, where's the prevention?:
Typical allergy book. Well written. Isn't it amazing that as advanced as our science has become that doctors have NO CLUE as to what causes allergies? Think about this (and this quote is from the "Idiot's Guide" who also claimed that the cause of food allergies is unknown): "In 1839, the French physiologist Francois Magendie (1783-1855), while investigating the effects of substances on living organisms, created allergylike symptoms in animals, and found that animals sensitized to egg white by... more info
