If it seems a lot more kids have food allergies these days that is because they do; the number has gone up 18% over the past decade and managing food allergies is an important part of childhood nutrition.  Of course the amount and type of ‘food allergy friendly’ foods rapidly increased as well leaving mums of food allergic kids with many more grocery options.  What has remained the same, however, is managing food allergies.  Food allergy research will continue but it will be sometime before food allergies are eradicated or entirely preventable.   Review our Understanding Food Allergies posts if you are new to food allergy information or have a newly diagnosed food allergic child, and here some tips for all mums to help manage kids’ food allergies: (more…)