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AllergicChild | Living A Full Life with Food Allergies
2d ago
Over the past 3 years, I’ve traveled a lot for work – and for fun. I’ve traveled nationally to San Francisco (CA), Tampa (FL), Whitefish (MT), Seattle (WA) and Boston (MA) a lot – plus some recurring trips inside Colorado where I live. I’ve traveled internationally to Italy, Calgary (Canada), Scotland (UK), and Barcelona (Spain ..read more
AllergicChild | Living A Full Life with Food Allergies
4M ago
I have long been challenged with dry eyes. My optometrist and I continue to look for ways to mitigate my scratchy eyes and blepharitis (inflammation in the eyelids where the oil glands become blocked). I had another flare of my dry eyes recently, and my doctor suggested a new product: Optase HyloNight. I was excited ..read more
AllergicChild | Living A Full Life with Food Allergies
6M ago
Facing life with Mast Cell Activation Syndrome (MCAS) is a daily challenge for most patients. Adding some type of medical procedure to that daily challenge can feel truly daunting. Yet sometimes we have to have a cavity filled, have a preventative colonoscopy or have surgery. At these times, good preparation will help the procedure go ..read more
AllergicChild | Living A Full Life with Food Allergies
7M ago
There’s a brand new book out called Allergic: Our Irritated Bodies in a Changing World by Theresa MacPhail. Theresa is a medical anthropologist – who knew there was such a thing ?! – and has done an admirable job covering topics from the medical discovery of allergies, diagnoses, where allergies might source from, treatments, research ..read more
AllergicChild | Living A Full Life with Food Allergies
10M ago
I have been writing a series of posts about my grown daughter, Michaela, and her path back to health from COVID and then from Long COVID, which started with the first blog post here. It has now been 20 months since the initial acute COVID infection, and the last 6 months have been better than ..read more
AllergicChild | Living A Full Life with Food Allergies
1y ago
I recently completed a series of Neurotherapy sessions at a local clinic called Neurotherapy of Colorado Springs. I was thrilled with the results that I experienced while still being in therapy, and I continue to see more positives now that I’m a graduate! I wanted to share with my readers how valuable Neurofeedback can be ..read more
AllergicChild | Living A Full Life with Food Allergies
1y ago
The COVID pandemic has been going for three years now, and it keeps on giving – this time to my husband and me in the form of our first COVID infection. Given that we’re both in our 60’s, I’m grateful that we got a milder variant that’s now making the rounds in Colorado and beyond ..read more
AllergicChild | Living A Full Life with Food Allergies
1y ago
There’s recently been recognition in the “forward thinking” Mast Cell Activation Syndrome (MCAS) doctors that mast cells have some type of communication with the nervous system. And this communication also seems to be occurring for long haul COVID patients. This communication appears to create the symptoms of anxiety, gastrointestinal issues and itchy skin, and may ..read more
AllergicChild | Living A Full Life with Food Allergies
1y ago
The ongoing saga of long COVID for my daughter, Michaela, continued into April 2022. Two prior blog posts on this topic are here (first) and here (second). She tried Benadryl, Pepcid, Zyrtec and Ketotifen along with Chinese herbs and creams, and each of them created more issues for her: vertigo, shaking, nausea and temperature extremes ..read more
AllergicChild | Living A Full Life with Food Allergies
2y ago
My grown daughter, Michaela, was diagnosed with COVID in November 2021, which I wrote about here. COVID is a wily foe, and while we all hoped that she would recover as her brother, Morgan, did (which I wrote about here) – her path was much more harrowing. After recovering from the acute stage of the ..read more