March 18, 2007

Food Allergy Parents Get Activist

Thanks to Gina Clowes and the other parents of food allergic children who were so helpful to me in putting together my article on how allergies have become the new battleground in parenting. Gina's son suffers from allergies to multiple foods; as a result, she has turned herself into an advocate and now runs an online support group, allergymoms.

In fact, because the national government and science has been slow to take action on this disease, many parents of allergic kids have jumped in to fill the void. The Food Allergy Project, a national advocacy group that has funded some of the most important research in the field, was started by a couple whose children have food allergies. The Food Allergy Anaphylaxis Network (FAAN), the leading patient advocacy group in the field, also was started by a parent whose child had a food allergy.

And many businesses that sell everything from allergen free treats to food allergy tags for toddlers, have been started by parents.




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