Allergy Cure
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News of Allergy Cures Doesn’t Get My Hopes Up
By Sean Kelley
The week that my son was diagnosed with severe food allergies, Duke University Medical Center researchers reported that a peanut-allergy cure might be only five years away. At the time, I reacted the same way I do to claims that scientists are on the verge of curing diabetes: I’ll believe it when I see it.
I’m not a natural cynic. I tend to trust people in general as well as information from authoritative sources. Want to play a practical joke on someone? I’m your man. Read More
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Meltdown on Aisle 6: Finding Processed Food for Our Allergic Son
By Sean Kelley
On my first trip to the grocery store after my son, Graeme, was diagnosed with food allergies, I did something I’ve never done in a food store before: I cried.
I’m usually happiest around food, but it was a moment of rare negative emotion, and my breakdown happened in front of God, my 4-year-old daughter, Elise, and the boy who was stocking aisle six.
I had been reading my way through the store, checking every item before tossing it in the basket for foods that are now verboten in my house: peanuts, corn, wheat, soy, egg whites, and chicken. I knew I had to avoid those, but it was finding the derivatives of them in almost every product that was sending me into a state of panic and sadness. Read More
