Based on recent groundbreaking studies that will change the way parents
feed their children, Allergy-Free Kids is a revolutionary guide to
preventing food allergies.
When her infant daughter was diagnosed with life-threatening food
allergies, Robin Nixon Pompa found Dr. Gideon Lack, a clinical
researcher on the verge of a breakthrough in allergy prevention and
treatment that would heal her daughter and, later, her sons.
The secret: building acceptance of allergens through repeated careful
feedings. Instead of avoiding eggs, nuts, and other allergens, as
previous recommendations held, most parents should introduce them into
their children's diets, "early, carefully and often, for at least the
first five years of life." This life-changing approach is being embraced
by the medical community, especially for peanut allergy, and is
reflected in new guidelines from the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma
and Immunology, the National Institutes of Health and other major
medical associations.
Allergy-Free Kids includes a concise, easy-to-understand overview of
the research as well as seventy simple and delicious kid-friendly
recipes to help parents integrate unfamiliar allergen foods into a
child's diet. Divided by allergen, Allergy-Free Kids contains sections
on Eggs, Peanuts and Tree Nuts, Cow's Milk, Sesame, Wheat and Fish. It
also discusses other foods, such as kiwi and soy, which are increasingly
causing allergic reactions. The book includes feeding advice, and
maintenance doses, followed by recipes suitable for babies, toddlers and
preschoolers, including Open Sesame Sweet Potatoes, Nut Flour Crackers,
Cocoa "Puffs" and Eggs-Pretending-to-be-Muffins.
Following the new medical guidelines, Allergy-Free Kids empowers
parents to help their kids avoid a lifelong struggle with food
allergies--and bring variety and joy back to family meals.
