Did you know that 1 in 10 adults and 1 in 13 children have food allergies?

In honor of Food Allergy Awareness Week, host Lisa Brooks takes us on an eye-opening journey of living with food allergies. As a mother of a child with multiple severe allergies, including dairy, eggs, cashews, and pistachios, she recounts heart-stopping moments when her son experienced allergic reactions and the painstaking efforts she undertook to create a safe environment, from researching food manufacturers to scrutinizing slicers at the deli. With insights from her healthcare background and encounters with both helpful and unhelpful professionals, Lisa shares about her ultimate goal of making her son "bite proof" through innovative desensitization techniques, as well as being a resource to help others keep their children and family members safe too. If you know someone with food allergies, want to learn about food allergies, or have an allergy yourself, this episode is for you.

Resources mentioned:

FARE: https://www.foodallergy.org/

Auvi-Q: https://www.auvi-q.com/

Learn more about Lisa at ⁠pomegranatecreations.org⁠.