The Busy Parent's Guide To Food Allergies: Everything you need to know about cow's milk allergy and other childhood food allergies

Written by a mother of two children with multiple food allergies and intolerances, this book will enable you to manage your child's food allergies with confidence. Clear and concise, The Busy Parent's Guide to Food Allergies is brimming with practical advice covering topics such as:

• symptoms of food allergy in babies and children
• getting a diagnosis and dealing with health professionals
• breastfeeding, bottle feeding and weaning
• shopping and reading food labels
• cooking at home
• eating out
• travelling abroad
• childcare and school
• family and friends
• reintroducing your child's allergen
• current areas of scientific research
• the teenage years
• going to university
• food allergy myth busting
• emotional impact of food allergies

As a parent of a child with food allergies, this book will show you how to strike a balance between keeping your child safe and well, and ensuring they still have the same normal childhood experiences as their peers. This book is relevant whether your child has immediate or delayed reactions, and whether their allergies are mild or severe. It can take time to get a diagnosis and learn how to manage food allergies, and this book is designed to support you through that process. Grounded in the latest research, The Busy's Parent's Guide to Food Allergies is easy to read, and explains medical terms in plain English.

REVIEWS

Zoe has written a really informative book that everyone who has any involvement with a food allergic person should read! It provides practical tips for the day to day management of food allergies, and could be an invaluable resource to help parents/carers navigate their way through living with food allergies. (Hazel Clark, Registered Dietitican and food allergy sufferer)

Such a useful resource! It’s brilliant. It covers all aspects of food allergies [from] what they are, the testing that can be done … but also practical things like going out to eat, reading food labels, how to navigate travelling and once they’re at school and university … I would really recommend it. (Dr Stephanie Ooi, GP and allergy mum.)

It’s a step by step guide to working out what the issues are, how to deal with them, and most importantly how to not let it absorb every ounce of your energy. (Hannah Croft, International Board Certified Lactation Consultant)

Informative but also accessible and supportive … this will be a very useful book. (Dr Hazel Gowland of Allergy Action)

Can’t quite describe how spot on this book is! I mean there’s nothing missing, everything is covered and in such a great way. Medical terms are used but also explained so well. I wish this was around 4 years ago when [my son] was a baby because life for us all would have been easier! (Sadie Harrison, Mum of 3 children, 2 with food allergies)

All I can say is I wish this book had been around when we began our journey into food allergies 10 years ago!!! It is packed with useful information that is clear and concise and the style of writing is very personal and easy to read. Even though we have been living with allergies for 10 years this book contains a lot of research and information that I was unaware of and the chapters on allergies and the teenage years onwards were particularly useful to me. I think this book should be given to every newly diagnosed allergy parent as part of their child’s care plan. This is a time of great fear and uncertainty and this book helps to quell those fears and gives you a sense of support. (Lisa Bolton, Mum of 2 children, 1 with food allergies)