AllergY-Free Kids

Based on recent groundbreaking studies that will change the way parents feed their children AllergyFree Kids is a revolutionary guide to preventing food allergies. When her infant daughter was diagnosed with lifethreatening food allergies Robin Nixon Pompa found Dr. Gideon Lack a clinical researcher on the verge of a breakthrough in allergy prevention and treatment that would heal her daughter and later her sons. The secret building acceptance of allergens through repeated careful feedings. Instead of avoiding eggs nuts and other allergens as previous recommendations held most parents should introduce them into their children’s diets early carefully and often for at least the first five years of life. This lifechanging approach is being embraced by the medical community especially for peanut allergy and is reflected in new guidelines from the American Academy of Allergy Asthma and Immunology the National Institutes of Health and other major medical associations. AllergyFree Kids includes a concise easytounderstand overview of the research as well as seventy simple and delicious kidfriendly recipes to help parents integrate unfamiliar allergen foods into a child’s diet. Divided by allergen AllergyFree Kids contains sections on Eggs Peanuts and Tree Nuts Cow’s Milk Sesame Wheat and Fish. It also discusses other foods such as kiwi and soy which are increasingly causing allergic reactions. The book includes feeding advice and maintenance doses followed by recipes suitable for babies toddlers and preschoolers including Open Sesame Sweet Potatoes Nut Flour Crackers Cocoa Puffs and EggsPretendingtobeMuffins. Following the new medical guidelines AllergyFree Kids empowers parents to help their kids avoid a lifelong struggle with food allergies—and bring variety and joy back to family meals.