Spokin’s Favorite Things For Holiday Gifts
Introducing Spokin’s Favorite Things Holiday Gift Guide! We stocked the list with allergy-friendly treats for the foodies, skin and makeup items for the beauty products lover plus teal themed products for everyone else on your list. Explore the full list of items, some with special offers, and happy holidays!
Editorial note: See more of our favorite things in our 2020 Holiday Gift Guide!
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Managing Multiple Food Allergies
Managing one food allergy can be daunting but managing "multiples" and living a robust life is downright admirable. Jennifer Keller, an active and dedicated mother of 3 young children, generously shares some of her best advice and top picks. Her youngest, Elliott, is allergic to dairy, egg, peanuts and several, but not all, tree nuts. She navigates it all with grace and optimism. A self-proclaimed non-cook, Jennifer manages to safely feed her son and her family's soul.
How to Read a Food Label
Dr. Ruchi Gupta is an associate professor of pediatrics at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and a physician at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago.
Expert Food Allergy Travel Advice
Shawna Huffman Owen has helped food allergic families navigate travel to destinations around the globe. Although she doesn't personally manage food allergies in her home, almost 50% of her family clients do.
As an owner of Huffman Travel, Shawna is an expert travel advisor that specializes in international family travel. Shawna shares with Spokin how she designs safe travel for food allergic families and lets us all in on some of her best travel tips.
New York City Food Allergy-Friendly City Guide
New York's density and diversity pack a lot in and offers something for everyone, making it one of the most food allergy-friendly cities you can visit. These businesses aren't all allergen-free, but they are experienced with food allergies and have an educated staff, which is why they made our list. You can make it there.
What are food allergies?
Get back to the basics with everything you need to know about the top 9 food allergies.
The Peanut Patch
Behind the scenes shot of Cooper filming about the Peanut Patch for CBS with Mary Kay Kleist Welcome to the third issue of Treatments and Therapies. The two previous issues explored OIT and SLIT, and in this issue, we feature the treatment commonly referred to as The Peanut Patch. DBV Technologies developed The Peanut Patch under their Viaskin® Products line, and it is currently only available to patients enrolled in a clinical trial. We had the opportunity to speak with Brenda Coletto, a Spokin user, whose son Cooper was enrolled in two peanut patch clinical trials. Brenda filled us in on their experience and shared an update on Cooper. Be sure to check out the CBS 2 Chicago feature on Cooper and Brenda
Oral Immunotherapy (OIT)
Welcome to the first in our series featuring food allergy treatments and therapies. Our goal is to keep you informed of treatment options, explain how they work, and and share insights from Spokin users who have first-hand experiences. Spokin recently sat down with Dr. Paul Detjen, one of our top recommended allergists administering Oral Immunotherapy, commonly referred to as OIT, and two parents whose children are undergoing OIT at his practice. Today we are sharing a front row seat to the therapy, the process, and the patient experience.
Top 10 Allergen-Free Food Products
We are always on the search for great tasting food-allergy friendly food products. Unfortunately, those phrases don't always appeared in the same sentence. We set out to create a list of top 10 products that would meet both criteria. To pass our taste test - even the pickiest of eaters, both allergic, and non-food allergic, had to ask for seconds. Our allergen-friendly test required crystal clear package labeling and consistent information on the manufacture's website. All the taste and none of the guesswork. This product guide was published on 10/16.
2019 Allergy-Friendly Halloween Candy Guide
Food allergy parents wear a cape every day — we're looking at you, Wonder Woman and Superman — but Halloween is your kids' turn, and they should soar. Whether you're shopping for candy and wish there was a guide to make it easier (we made it) or you need to quickly determine if your trick or treater's stash is safe to eat, the Spokin app is going to make you a hero. This product guide was published on 9/25/19. See our 2022 Nut-Free, Dairy-Free, and Gluten-Free Halloween Candy Guides for more allergy-friendly candy! Top 8+ Allergen Free Candy | Mainstream Candy
