Food Allergy Awareness Week May 11-17th

This week is Food and Allergy Awareness Week. If just one more person out there can become educated on food allergies than I feel that is an accomplishment on my part.

While reading FAAN a very shocking statistic jumped out at me. In an average week in the United States, two or three otherwise healthy Americans will lose their lives, and nearly 5,000 will be hospitalized due to allergic reactions to foods. Approximately 6 to 8 percent of children under age 4 and nearly 4 percent of persons age 5 and older have a food allergy. The need to become educated on food allergies is so important. Especially those people who are caring for children with food allergies when their parents are not there.

Please visit FAAN for more information on food allergies