Allergy-free Valentine's Day activities for children with food allergies, including craft ideas, gift ideas and more.

This eight-page booklet is filled with ideas and tips for celebrating Valentine's Day safely with your food allergic children. Included are school party planning tips, allergy safe crafts and allergy-free recipes including "peanut butter" cups, crunch chocolates, and sugar lollipops.

4 allergy-free recipes to make Valentine's Day safe and fun for everyone! Including gluten-free rice play dough (for crafts), milk and nut-free chocolates and sugar-only lollipops.

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This contest is modeled after Food Network's Iron Chef series, but with a twist. These recipes are safe for food allergies. Hosted by Kids With Food Allergies, Inc, a national non-profit. The current battle is "Valentine's Indulge Us". All recipes must be free of nuts, tree nuts, and other allergens; and must be a candy or dessert.

A food allergy is an immunologic response to a food protein. It is estimated that up to 12 million Americans have food allergies of one type or another, and the prevalence is apparently rising. Six to eight percent of children under the age of three have food allergies and nearly four percent of adults have them. Food allergy causes roughly 30,000 emergency room visits and 100 to 200 deaths per year in the United States. The most common food allergies in adults are shellfish, peanuts, tree nuts, fish, and eggs, and the most common food allergies present in children are milk, eggs, peanuts, and tree nuts.At this time, there is no cure for food allergies. Treatment consists of avoidance diets, in which the allergic person avoids all forms of the food to which they are allergic. For people who are extremely sensitive, this may involve the total avoidance of any exposure with the allergen, including touching or inhaling the problematic food as well as touching any surfaces that may have come into contact with it. Food allergy is distinct from food intolerance, which is not caused by an immune reaction.Persons diagnosed with a food allergy may carry an autoinjector of epinephrine such as an EpiPen or Twinject, wear some form of medical alert jewelry, or develop an emergency action plan, in accordance with their doctor.