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Allergies
The New Rules for Food Allergies
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Sep 19, 2014 - 12:10:17 PM

(HealthNewsDigest.com) - "The call came into Jenness Stock's office from the kindergarten room downstairs: A student couldn't stop coughing -- could the nurse take a look at her? Stock, who at the time oversaw 650 students at two Waukegan, Illinois, public schools, found the little girl coughing noisily between sips of water. In her classroom, the other kids were eating African and Asian dishes as part of a cultural-studies unit. ‘My tongue feels too big for my mouth,' the girl said. Her face was red around her lips, and Stock's heart skipped a beat. ‘Food allergy,' the nurse instantly thought." 

This is an excerpt from "The New Rules for Food Allergies," an article published in Parents' Magazine 2014 September issue with contributions from AAFA's Kids With Food Allergy (KFA) Division Vice President, Lynda Mitchell. Click here to read the full article. Be sure to visit KFA's website, www.kidswithfoodallergies.org, for more information about food allergies.
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