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Books and Other Resources For Individuals With Food Allergies

Sometimes we need to find information about how to deal with a problem or issue such as handling a child with food allergies, or shopping for a family member with food allergies, or how to cook meals when you have a family member with food allergies. There are many situations and questions that arise when you are dealing with food allergies that it is nice to have a place to go to where you can find books, Websites and other resources that you can turn to and find the answers you need when you need them. This article is such as place to turn to. Feel free to print this article so that you can have it handy as a resource when you need it.

Books About Food Allergies:

Hidden Food Allergies: The Essential Guide to Uncovering Hidden Food by James Braly, Patrick Holford

This book was published in 2006 and is written by Britain's top nutrition expert and a leading medical authority on nutrition. Readers can find all kinds of useful information about food allergies in the pages of this book including how to prevent and solve childhood allergies and new and exciting findings on the relationship between food allergies, food addiction, and alcoholism. Also discussed are the latest breakthroughs in allergy testing, how to follow elimination diets and reintroduce foods safely.

Other books on food allergies are:

How to Manage Your Child's Life-Threatening Food Allergies by Linda Marienhoff Coss

Food Allergies: Enjoying Life with a Severe Food Allergy by Tanya Wright

Food Allergies: How to Tell if You Have Them, What to Do About Them If You Do by Neil S. Orenstein, Sarah L. Bingham

Food Allergies: Up-To-Date Tips from the World's Foremost Nutrition Experts by Celide Barnes Koerner, Anne Munoz-Furlong

The Whole Foods Allergy Cookbook: Two Hundred Gourmet & Homestyle Recipes by Cybele Pascal

Websites About Food Allergies:

The Food Allergy & Anaphylaxis Network is a nonprofit organization dedicated to bringing about a clearer understanding of the issues surrounding food allergies and providing helpful resources according to the site. They can be located at www.foodallergy.org/

You can read about the symptoms, signs, diagnosis, and treatment on medicinenet.com/food_allergy/article.htm

A good site for finding out about dealing with kids and food allergies is kidswithfoodallergies.org/

The American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology has a brochure called Tips to remember - Food allergies that are available for free

http://www.aaaai.org

And the International Food Information Council Foundation has a brochure called Understanding Food Allergy, which is also free and available at

http://www.ific.org/publications/brochures/allergybroch.cfm

The American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology also has a 15-minute video and brochure that describes how true food allergy differs from food intolerance, and is available for a cost of $25.00

http://www.aaaai.org