food allergies

Laurie Margolis from Long Grove lives with food allergies every day. She’s allergic to peanuts, tree nuts, soy, coconut and shellfish, and her two boys, ages 8 and 7, have severe feed allergies too. “Jack is allergic to milk, eggs, peanuts and tree nuts and Max is allergic to eggs, peanuts, tree nuts and fish, so dinners are very complicated…

The “Mighty Jax” doll and book is the brainchild of a suburban mom who knows the challenges of food allergies firsthand. NBC 5’s Lauren Petty has the story.

Taking part can help kids with food allergies can join in the Halloween fun. NBC’s Sarah Dallof reports.

An advisory committee for the Food and Drug Administration voted Friday to recommend a peanut allergy treatment for FDA approval. The drug, called Palforzia, would be the first FDA-approved drug for treating food allergies, NBC News reported. Read More

Health insurance companies in Illinois will soon be required to cover EpiPens for children with severe allergies.

Authorities are investigating the apparent sudden food allergy-related death of an 11-year-old boy in Brooklyn, and law enforcement sources confirmed to News 4 that detectives are looking into whether the smell of cooking fish could have triggered a reaction.

Teal-colored pumpkins are appearing on more porches as part of a national effort to make the holiday safe for children with food allergies.

Dining out when you have a food allergy can be tough. Here are some tips for preparing to eat a meal at a restaurant.

Singer Dua Lipa called out United Airlines on Wednesday for the way a flight attendant responded when Lipa explained her sister had a peanut allergy. In a tweet, Lipa said the attendant informed her that United is not a nut-free airline. The flight attendant also said Lipa’s sister might have to use an EpiPen because the airline couldn’t refuse to...

An idea called “America’s Harvest Box” was floated in February in the Trump administration’s 2019 budget proposal, tucked inside a plan to slash SNAP by roughly $213 billion, or 30 percent, over the next 10 years. Households that receive more than $90 in SNAP benefits each month — roughly 81 percent of households in the program, or about 16.4 million...

Authorities say three Pennsylvania teenagers face criminal charges after intentionally exposing a school classmate with a severe pineapple allergy to the fruit. Police in Butler Township allege that a 14-year-old high-fived the other 14-year-old girl to expose her to the fruit during lunch period Dec. 13 at Butler Intermediate High School. The victim was taken by ambulance to Butler Memorial...

The first treatment to help prevent serious allergic reactions to peanuts may be on the way.

“Peter Rabbit” filmmakers and the studio behind it are apologizing for insensitively depicting a character’s allergy in the film that has prompted backlash online.

Nov. 30, 2007: Amtrak’s Pere Marquette plows into a stopped freight train on the Norfolk Southern tracks the collision caught on freight yard video.

On Nov. 30, 2007, Amtrak’s Pere Marquette plowed into a stopped freight train on the Norfolk Southern tracks. The crash on Chicago’s South Side was among the first to prompt a call for positive train control (PTC). Charlie Wojciechowski reports.

Teal-colored pumpkins are appearing on more porches as part of a national effort to make the holiday safe for children with food allergies.

A renowned Michelin three-star restaurant in Napa County is among the latest high-end establishments to join the trend of requiring prepaid “tickets.”

Through “a true community effort” CPS was the first large urban school district to commit to making sure every one of its buildings has emergency supplies of this life-saving antidote on hand, with a continued commitment of both money and training for all schools.