A few days ago, a friend told me that she had gone to a sushi restaurant the week before and she didn’t know what she’d eaten that triggered it but her eyes and lips swelled up immediately. The swelling lasted for several days and was painful. “I couldn’t leave the house.” She was really concerned […]
Cooking with kids is fun! The great thing about cooking with young children is it fosters healthy eating attitudes from an early age, while encouraging thinking about how things grow and then change in the cooking process. Don’t know where to start? Why not at the beginning! “Cooking with kids is not just about ingredients, […]
Care Plans: a Must Each child with allergies in your care is required to have an emergency care plan on file with your childcare center. This plan is filled out by the child’s doctor and explains their allergens and which allergies can cause the most extreme reactions. It will also explain the exact steps that […]
No matter how careful you are in implementing an allergy avoidance plan in your childcare center, at some point you will come face-to-face with a student having an attack. Symptoms of an allergic reaction can range from mild to severe and can present themselves within minutes or up to two hours after ingesting an allergen. […]
In the close quarters of a childcare center or school, we have to find ways to keep allergic outbreaks from occurring. Little hands like to touch and explore everything they see, so it is the job of the grownups to keep them safe. To keep your students safe during meal and snack time, here are […]
“Carlo, get to work, or I’ll come over there and force-feed you a peanut.” Inside, I was a frightened and ashamed 10-year-old again, eyes darting, checking and rechecking the food before me, the food I knew was safe. I was very lucky. I was never physically bullied, and nobody ever tried to make me eat […]
There are three types of allergic reactions to food: Contact reactions Ingestion reactions Inhalation reactions Related: Food Allergies & Childcare Contact reactions occur when an allergic child touches the allergen that was left on a surface. Reactions can include hives or itchiness at the point of contact, which become life threatening if the allergic child accidentally […]
Food allergies are on the rise, but why should that matter to you as a childcare provider? Simply put, it may be a matter of life and death. A food allergy is when a person’s immune system overreacts to what should be a harmless food. For example, most of us don’t think anything about eating nuts, but […]