Category: Living with Food Allergies
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WW: Living with Food Allergies – Getting Sick while Getting Well
One of the surprising things about having food allergies is the fear of getting sick and whether the process of getting well will make you sicker. It’s much more complicated than you might imagine. In January, I managed to get either bronchitis or pneumonia, which affected my asthma to the point that my nurse practitioner…
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WW: Living with Food Allergies — Diagnosis
How were your food allergies diagnosed? Denise and I have both posted our diagnosis stories in our blog bios. The medical tests recommended for each of us were different — her allergist recommended skin scratch tests, and my doctor had referred me to a naturopathic doctor because she couldn’t help, and my naturopath was the…
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WW: Living with Food Allergies — Identity
“You are what you eat.” Right. So what are you when you can’t eat half the foods that you used to love? Or any of the family recipes you grew up with? Or your favorite dish of your best friends, or the perfect brownie recipe you spent two years perfecting? What are you? Lost and…
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WW: Living with Food Allergies — Socializing
We’ve touched on this topic in a peripheral way in our posts on Relationships and Food Free Entertainment, but we wanted to give this topic its own post because of the prevalence of food with socializing in our society, and the complications that can cause if you have food allergies. When you develop a food…
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WW: Living with Food Allergies — Food-free Entertainment
More Life With Food Allergies! You’ve been holding your breath in anticipation, haven’t you? This week, we’re planning to discuss things you can do with your significant other or your friends or even your family that do not revolve around food. I know, it sounds crazy that food would be so central to socializing, and…
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WW: Living With Food Allergies – Relationships
Welcome back to our Whatever Wednesday: Living with Food Allergies series. I bet you thought we forgot about it, but the truth is, we needed to talk about what we wanted to cover in this series. Expect to see more regular postings going forward. And when you see one of these? Grab a cup of…
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Whatever Wednesday: Food Allergies – Time, time, time, see what’s become of me
I could do a food allergy parody of Simon & Garfunkel’s Hazy Shade of Winter or Pink Floyd’s Time, but that would take an awful lot of effort and creativity, and frankly, I don’t have time as you will soon see from this post. When I first went off milk, hazelnuts and scallops, I thought…
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Whatever Wednesday: Food, Allergies, and Knowledge, a series of thoughts
This is part one of a series I’ve been discussing with Denise talking about some of the many things we’ve learned via the “fun” of food allergy diagnosis and lifestyle. Some of what we’ve learned is about food and food production. Some is about psychology, some about culture, and there are probably some life lessons…