The Parent's Guide to Food Allergies: Clear and Complete Advice from the Experts on Raising Your Food-Allergic Child

When I found out my 9 month old son had severe food allergies, I was overwhelmed. The doctor said he couldn't eat wheat, egg, peanuts, milk, and several other foods, but never gave me practical advice on how to cope with this new lifestyle. This book really helped us figure out how to start introducing new foods, and how to shop for acceptable foods in the grocery store. The best feature is that there is a separate chapter on all the common food allergies. Each chapter starts with a list of all items you could see on a food label that would be dangerous if you have that allergy. For example, the chapter on milk lists things like casein, ghee, hydrolysates as well as about two dozen other things milk-allergic people should avoid.

I bought the book immediately after finding out that my daughter was allergic to milk. This book has offered a great deal of information regarding food allergies and how to deal with them when your child has one or more. It has also provided me some comfort, partly by educating me on the topic and partly by letting me know that others deal with the same fears and emotions that I am going through. Having a child with a life threatening condition such as this is so scary and stressful, but this book helps you to deal with that by giving you useful information and tips that have been used by the author in her own struggles with food allergic children.

I wasn't very happy with this book. I found a few helpful pointers, but overall the views were sort of extreme, and some of the advice was very contrary to what physicians have told us. If anybody I knew was reading this, I'd suggest they take it with a grain of salt and get several other viewpoints as well.

This book is a must have for parents who have children with food allergies. The book is very well written explaining all food allergies, how to cope, life situtations, everything you need to know and it also has some food recipes in it. This book is an easy read that will make any parent a little less tense about coping with their child's food allergies. I felt more educated after reading this book and am trying to learn more about food allergies to protect my child.

This is a decent book which offers a lot of information on many areas of food allergies in children. Glad to have it as reference.

This is the first book I read when my son was diagnosed with multiple food allergies. It's a good starting point, but not the best book on the market. The author's child has a severe peanut allergy so the tips given are mainly for a severe peanut allergy. For those of us who have severe allergies and are avoiding the top 8 allergens plus additional foods - the help this book offers is limited.

Great product!

Good on an emotional level - author helps you understand what it really means to have an allergic child, and gives you the psychological and practical tools to deal with it. Recipes however not that interesting (very few) and author does insist on telling you how it would taste better with 'real butter'! which I found frustrating.

I am still reading this book but I find it very interesting and informative as my child has lots of allergies