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Food Allergy Trauma: How Can We Trust Again?

Posted on October 01, 2008

I was interviewed by ABC News for an article on the emotional toll of food allergies and what we call Post-Reaction Stress Disorder . I explained to Radha Chitale, who was writing the article, that I didnt want to be part of another article blaming the (food allergy) moms. Yes, some of us are anxious, and some of our kids are too. But no one outside this food allergy world can ever really know what it is like to watch your child go from perfectly normal to completely swollen and gasping for breath within minutes. And as Dr Robert Wood said in the article: A severe, life-threatening reaction...

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