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Oct 14, Support The Teal Pumpkin Project To Raise Food Allergy Awareness
Halloween is a fun time for families. Dressing up, having parties and trick-or-treating. Children particularly love trick or treating. But if your child suffers from allergies it can become less fun. A great project has been started by FARE (Food Allergy Research and Education). It is called The Teal Pumpkin Project. It is encouraging households to give non-food items out to trick-or-treaters. The participating households put a teal painted pumpkin their house, as well as putting up a poster, to tell trick-or-treaters that they are only giving out non-food treats. I think this project is a great idea. It helps to raise awareness of food allergies, and allows children suffering from them to participate in a fun family tradition. It would be great if communities could get involved and raise awareness of this project. You can find out more below
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Jan 31, Three Ladies and The Allergy Law Project
Three lawyers from the United States have founded the Allergy Law Project, the Las Vegas Review Journal has reported. The three ladies all have children with food allergies and are working to provide the right information about the law and food allergies. The article is an interesting read about how one of these ladies, Homa Woodrum, found that her first child had developed food allergies. From there she started a blog which provided recipes for families dealing with food allergies. The blog ran a story which caught the attention of an attorney from Maryland, Mary Vargas. Woodrum met Laurel Francoeur, a lawyer from Massachusetts, who came up with the idea of the Allergy Law Project. Together the three ladies provide free information online about the allergy law in the United States. You can read more about their story below
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New NEA blog post. Why is the East Coast missing from the Eczema Map Project?
Check out my latest post on the blog of the National Eczema Association. I write about the Eczema Map Project and, in particular, what it’s already taught me: that either I have a lot to learn, or there’s not much happening on the east coast of the United States, which has traditionally been the power center for academia, industry, and medicine. Why is that?
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Oct 14, Support The Teal Pumpkin Project To Raise Food Allergy Awareness
Halloween is a fun time for families. Dressing up, having parties and trick-or-treating. Children particularly love trick or treating. But if your child suffers from allergies it can become less fun. A great project has been started by FARE (Food Allergy Research and Education). It is called The Teal Pumpkin Project. It is encouraging households to give non-food items out to trick-or-treaters. The participating households put a teal painted pumpkin their house, as well as putting up a poster, to tell trick-or-treaters that they are only giving out non-food treats. I think this project is a great idea. It helps to raise awareness of food allergies, and allows children suffering from them to participate in a fun family tradition. It would be great if communities could get involved and raise awareness of this project. You can find out more below
Eczema Blog
The Eczema Map Project: the big picture
Something I’ve wanted to do for a long time is create a world map of all the major centers or points of interest for eczema patients, doctors and scientists.
Why? Because I feel that we’re all largely isolated, even in the internet age. Especially with a disease that makes you want to stay away from other people. We can get on our computers and search for blogs or advice or therapies, but there’s very little sense of belonging to a greater community. We don’t know what’s going on in the big picture.
And so I would like to introduce to you the Eczema Map Project, a work in progress. It is a map of the world marking the locations of key researchers, therapy centers, and patient associations.
I’ve decided to make the map a permanent tab on this blog, so I can update it continually when I learn about new people or developments.
The items on this map are those that I consider significant–game-changers, not just good dermatologists. But please feel free to write a comment about your dermatologist if you think he or she is above average!
You can see that at present the map is a bit USA and UK-centric. This could be for a few reasons. I largely operate in English, and I live in California, so I tend to hear about developments in the USA more than anywhere else. But it is true that the USA is a very large and well-developed country with some of the best medical care in the world (for those who can afford it–an issue I have strong opinions on, but which I am not going to get into right now). So it may turn out that more of the most important sites are indeed here.
But please tell me what is missing from this map. Is there a major therapy center or a patient association I don’t know about? Leading scientists not there? Tell me, and I’ll add them. Or, if you think an item doesn’t merit being listed, let me know. Nothing is set in stone.
And have fun exploring the world map from an eczema perspective.
View The Eczema Map Project in a full screen map
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Jan 31, Three Ladies and The Allergy Law Project
Three lawyers from the United States have founded the Allergy Law Project, the Las Vegas Review Journal has reported. The three ladies all have children with food allergies and are working to provide the right information about the law and food allergies. The article is an interesting read about how one of these ladies, Homa Woodrum, found that her first child had developed food allergies. From there she started a blog which provided recipes for families dealing with food allergies. The blog ran a story which caught the attention of an attorney from Maryland, Mary Vargas. Woodrum met Laurel Francoeur, a lawyer from Massachusetts, who came up with the idea of the Allergy Law Project. Together the three ladies provide free information online about the allergy law in the United States. You can read more about their story below
Eczema Blog