Hirschberg said the JW Tumbles event and the upcoming walk will help raise awareness about how pervasive food allergies have become in children. ...

DENVER - Did you know one in 25 Americans has a food allergy? When you look at children, those numbers are even closer together.

Child With Severe Peanut Allergy Needs Dog To Attend Kindergarten Next Year Peanut allergies can cramp a kids social life. Just ask four year old Aaylah Stoops of Madison who doesn't get to go to the movie theater, or restaurants or sometimes even to birthday parties because she is severely allergic to peanuts and anything that comes into contact with them. When she does get out of the house ...

Of the children heading back to school this fall, 2.2 million have some type of food allergy, according to the Food Allergy & Anaphylaxis Network. Most allergies center around eight types of foods: peanuts, tree nuts, wheat, milk, soy, fish, shellfish and eggs.

Concerned about potentially serious peanut allergies, the Bexley school board decided unanimously on July 19 to create a peanut-free table in every district school building.

In all, 3 million children deal with this medical condition. The incidence of peanut allergy doubled in children between 1997 and 2002. ...

As a parent of a child who has mercifully outgrown his peanut allergy, I totally understand the perspective of parents. Yes, peanut allergies are a pain in ...

Her peanut allergy tested at 30. After the cashew incident, Dana Kelley went online to find other families with highly allergic children, hoping they could ...

Unlike other food allergies — which might disappear as kids grow up or respond to doctor-supervised "challenges" allowing a child to build up a tolerance ...

About 1 in every 10 children in the US has the chronic lung disease. If he or she is also among the roughly 1 percent of children with a peanut allergy, ...