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July 14, 2009
Involve Your Child When Making Travel Plans
My 19-year-old son is getting ready to travel without us on a mission trip with his church youth group for the third year in a row— this time to South Dakota. When he was younger, I would never have thought this type of trip was possible. But after years of planning and teaching him to be responsible about his food allergies, I know he can do it.
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As he has gotten older and more independent, he hasn't let food allergies hold him back from doing what he's wanted to do. The careful trip planning you do now with your children can prepare them to travel where ever they want to go in the future, even without Mom or Dad.
This issue includes travel tips for you so you can make your vacation successful too. Sit down with your child as you review them and prepare your trip together. I hope you find them helpful.
Best regards,
Lynda Mitchell, KFA President |
Camps for Food Allergic Kids:
• Center for Courageous Kids
Fall Weekend Retreat in Kentucky for Families with Food Allergies: Apply Now!
Dates: September 11-13, 2009
• Camp T.A.G. is in the planning phases to develop day camps for kids with food allergies, eosinophilic diseases, or asthma.
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Editor's note: Don't miss this issue's News items. They include important information about epinephrine.
Live Chat! Traveling with Food Allergic Kids Thursday, July 16, 2009
 Discussions will include how to plan for road trips, air travel, or international destinations. Bring your questions, tips, travel stories, and a cup of coffee. KFA Live Chats are a benefit for Family Membership subscribers. Subscribe today and mark your calendars!
- Join Kathy Przywara, an experienced traveler and mother to food allergic kids, in KFA's Virtual Coffee Shop at 11 am PST | 2 pm EST.
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Cristi Schwamb, educator and seasoned traveler, will host an evening chat that night at 6 pm PST | 9 pm EST.
Food Allergy Resources
Each month, KFA provides new or updated food allergy articles to educate families, caregivers, and the public about different topics regarding food allergies. Premium resources are available to KFA Family Members only.
Available to the public: The articles below are available to all Web site visitors.
UPDATED! On the Road with Food Allergies
 Traveling by car has its own challenges when you have a family member with food allergies. Road trips with food allergies require you to do advance planning and bring along extra foods and gear in the car. This article
offers seven tips to get you started in planning your next road trip.
Camping with Food Allergies Can Be Safe and Fun
 Reluctant to release your food-allergic child into the great outdoors? Don't be. Children are among those who can gain the most from nature—and children with food allergies are no exception.
Take your family camping this summer to enjoy the many entertaining and inexpensive benefits nature has to offer—and discover this food-allergy friendly activity for yourself!
Trouble-free Travel for Families with Food Allergic Children
 For families with food allergic children, planning is essential to a relaxing retreat. Kids With Food Allergies helps you plan your vacation safely, with tips from a travel agent that were approved by KFA's Medical Advisory Team. Life-threatening food allergies don't have to stop your family from enjoying a relaxing vacation.
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Fundraising and Donations for KFA
Evergreen Helping Hands Fundraiser for July 2009
Evergreen Helping Hands now offers its specialty baking mixes for sale on its new Web site. Choose from a variety of mixes — pudding mixes, scone mixes, waffle mixes, pancake mixes and cake mixes — during the month of July, and Evergreen Helping Hands will donate 25% of every sale to Kids With Food Allergies at no cost to you.
Allergy and Asthma Travel Tips Checklist
"If you're planning a summer vacation, and you or your child have allergies or asthma, proper planning can help you keep sneezes, sniffles, wheezing and coughing under control. Use the following tips as a checklist from the American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology (ACAAI) to make sure that allergy misery doesn't derail your vacation fun."
Needle-free Epinephrine Auto-Injectors
A needle-free epinephrine injector is being developed in Europe. The Medical House PLC has designed
three new jet injectors that deliver liquid medications without a needle by forcing a stream of liquid at a high velocity that can penetrate the skin. Advantages of this new injector include eliminating the risks of needle stick injuries, avoiding the need for disposal of contaminated sharps, and helping patients overcome injection anxiety due to aversion of needles.
EpiPen Needles Too Short for Some Kids
"The needles on EpiPen auto-injectors are not long enough to deliver adrenaline into the muscle for as many as one in three children, new research shows."
Over 3/4 of Food Allergic College Students Do Not Carry Epinephrine
"Potentially life-threatening anaphylactic reactions to foods are occurring on college campuses. Only 39.7% of students with food allergy avoided a self-identified food allergen, and more than three fourths did not maintain self-injectable epinephrine. Only 6.6% reported always carrying this device. Such behaviors might place these students at increased risk for adverse events."
A Message from Our Sponsor
Click on the image above to visit the Web site of this month's newsletter sponsor.
Sign up for a free Associate Membership to read the messages posted in our "Main" POFAK online support forum. Better yet, become a Family Member and join the discussion! Some of these topics may discuss foods. Remember to always verify the safety of any products mentioned on our forums to make sure they are truly safe for your child's unique food allergy issues.
Road Trips 101: Checklist (Open to all members in the Main Forum)
Planning a road trip soon? Don't miss these great ideas about how to pack safe foods for your allergic children, what supplies are essential, how to cook in hotels or on the road, and other preparation tips. Parents share packing checklists and other helpful hints for traveling by car.
The $5 Food Allergy Dinner Challenge (for KFA Family Members)
"Can you create an allergy-free dinner for your family for under 5 bucks (or close to it!)? Share your meal planning tips, cost breakdowns, and recipes for your cheap Dinner Challenge here!"
This Support Circle is open to KFA Family Members to share ideas on how to make affordable, food allergy-friendly dinners.
POFAKs Battling the Bulge (for KFA Family Members)
"Has always having "safe" treats on hand added a few pounds to your hips? Do you have a hard time squeezing in a workout because you are not comfortable leaving your child in the gym childcare? Come share ideas and gain support while trying to drop (or maintain) weight!"
This Support Circle is open to KFA Family Members to offer support on the challenges of shedding pounds when you have food allergic kids.
Visit KFA's Allergy Buyer's Guide to find foods and products that cater to the food allergic consumer. Please let our sponsors know that you found them through KFA!
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Food Alerts! Have you checked the Allergy Recall Alerts section at KFA recently? The following foods were recently recalled:
U.S. Allergy Recalls
- Publix Brand Greenwise: Vanilla and Chocolate Whey Protein Powders (undeclared milk)
Canadian Allergy Recalls
- Crown, Lotte, Surasang Brands: Various Korean crackers and biscuits (undeclared milk, egg, and tree nut)
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