Food Allergies and Intolerances

• The Health Professional’s Guide to Food Allergies and Intolerances is a comprehensive guide that covers the latest science on food allergies and intolerances, plus practical suggestions for their management. It includes how food allergies and food intolerances differ; diagnosis and role of elimination diets and challenge protocols in identifying food sensitivities; symptoms, diagnosis, and management of adverse reactions to foods and components that cause allergy, intolerance, or sensitivity; and pediatric food allergy. (#453X, members $49.99, nonmembers $64.99)

• Food Allergies and Intolerances: Client Education Tools for Dietary Management - Complete Set contains downloadable handouts for patients that include foods to avoid, nutritionally equal substitutions, and reading food labels. The set contains information on 13 common food allergies and 14 food sensitivities and intolerances, blank records so patients can track their diets and symptoms, healthy food substitution charts, and handouts on conditions that have been linked to food reactions, such as eczema, hyperactivity, and autism. (members $29.99; nonmembers $34.99)

• Food Allergies: Cutting Through the Clutter is an e-learning self-study with four modules.

• Module 1 – Overview of Diagnosis to Management provides an overview of food allergies and focuses on guidelines for diagnosing and managing food allergies. (2 CPEUs, members $24.00, nonmembers $54.00)

• Module 2 – Food Allergies Through the Life Cycle identifies best practices in managing food allergies in children and adults and discusses age-specific issues of food allergy management. (2 CPEUs, members $24.00, nonmembers $54.00)

• Module 3 - Working with Manufacturers, Restaurants, and School Foodservice discusses ways the food industry can safe-guard from food allergen contamination and reviews laws and regulations for managing food allergies in school foodservice. (2 CPEUs, members $24.00, nonmembers $54.00)

• Module 4 – Food Allergy Management Toolkit analyzes best practices in food allergy management, reviews food allergen labeling regulations and methods of filing a complaint, and identifies tools for the practitioner’s toolkit. To receive a certificate of training in food allergies, all four modules must be completed and the final exam passed with 80% or higher. (2 CPEUs, members $24.00, nonmembers $54.00)

• Food Allergies offers information on types of food allergies, causes, symptoms and treatment.

• Ask the Allergist provides expert answers to allergy questions. Food topics include peanut component testing, tick bites and allergies, and infant formula and corn allergy.

Food Allergies in Schools Toolkits - CDC’s tool kit contains tip sheets, training presentations, and podcasts to help school staff implement the Voluntary Guidelines for Managing Food Allergies in order to prevent and manage severe allergic reactions in schools.

FARE is a nonprofit organization formed in 2012 from the merger of the Food Allergy & Anaphylaxis Network and the Food Allergy Initiative. It provides many resources for parents, kids, schools, the food industry and healthcare providers.

• Managing Food Allergies During the School Day - Get information and materials to manage students’ food allergies throughout the school day and school year.

• Welcoming Guests with Food Allergies is a comprehensive program for training staff to safely prepare and serve food to guests who have food allergies.

• FARE's It’s Not a Joke Campaign helps raise awareness about the seriousness of food allergies and how to prevent food allergy bullying. A PSA and other resources are available.

• How to Read Food Labels provides helpful tips on what to look for when reading a food label.

Food Allergies: What You Need to Know covers FDA’s role in food allergen labeling, major food allergens and how they are listed on a label, and symptoms of food allergies. Includes video "Food Allergies - Reducing the Risks"

• This website includes an online support community for parents, recipes, FAQs answered by medical experts, webinars, news and research updates.

• Replacing Lost Nutrients Due to Food Allergies: Blog post by Deb Indorato, RD

Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Management of Food Allergy in the United States: Report of the NIAID-Sponsored Expert Panel, December 2010, contains 43 clinical recommendations to help healthcare professionals customize care for their patients with allergies. It covers definitions, prevalence and epidemiology of food allergy, natural history, diagnosis, management of non-acute allergic reactions, prevention of food allergy, and management of severe symptoms and anaphylaxis.

Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Management of Food Allergy in the United States: Summary for Patients, Families, and Caregivers summarizes the most important information from the expert-panel guidelines developed to help healthcare professionals better care for their patients with food allergies. The patient summary includes definitions, common food allergens, how food allergy develops, diagnosis and testing, ways to manage food allergies and anaphylaxis.

2017 Addendum Guidelines for the Prevention of Peanut Allergy in the United States - In 2015, findings from a landmark NIAID-funded clinical trial called the Learning Early About Peanut (LEAP) study showed that introducing peanut-containing foods to infants at high risk for developing peanut allergy was safe and led to an 81 percent relative reduction in the subsequent development of peanut allergy. Based on the strength of these results, NIAID established another coordinating committee, which convened an expert panel to update the 2010 Guidelines to specifically address the prevention of peanut allergy. 

Select Wisely provides food and health translation cards for travelers with food and drug allergies, dietary restrictions including gluten free and lactose intolerance, and medical emergencies. Cards are available in many languages, including Chinese, Russian, Swedish and Vietnamese.

Food allergy cards include a list of nuts, list of shellfish, multi-food allergy card, a strongly worded food allergy card, and an emergency card requesting medical help. messages on a restaurant chef card in English is at http://www.selectwisely.com/selectwisely/content_pages/english_card_descr.htm special orders are provided on nonstandard foods and languages. (prices vary, about $4.50-$15.00 per order + $1.50 per card S/H in US; comes with 2 laminated identical cards)