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Allergy Skin Prick Testing: Worth the Risk?

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July 12, 2018 It was a moment that changed my life forever and my trust in the medical profession, a moment of such clarity and insight that I still feel it was divine led.  It changed who I am, it … Continue reading

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Anaphylactic Food Allergy: The Role of Adjuvants and Injection

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May 15, 2017 This is Food Allergy Awareness Week. Here at TMR, we wish to highlight one aspect of food allergy around which there is little awareness: how food allergies can be created with the use of aluminum adjuvants. Life-threatening … Continue reading

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Vaccines: Allergy, Autoimmunity, Autism, and More

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January 21, 2016  “The conception that antibodies, which should protect against disease, are also responsible for disease, sounds at first absurd.” — Clemens von Pirquet, 1906 A while back I wrote a blog stating that, while my own views on … Continue reading

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Anaphylactic Food Allergy Is NOT Normal

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A Facebook friend posted this as her status last week. Many people don’t understand the severity or seriousness of life-threatening food allergy in today’s children because it is unlike anything they ever knew when they were children. We think it’s … Continue reading

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Ending the Peanut Allergy Epidemic

In 1995, my one-year-old son Woody reacted violently with anaphylaxis to a taste of peanut butter. In hindsight, he was part of the “first wave” of an epidemic of life-threatening peanut allergy in children that in just 20 years has … Continue reading

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How to Cause a Peanut Allergy Epidemic in 4 Easy Steps

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(This originally ran February 27, 2014.  As the second edition of Heather Fraser’s book is now out, it seemed a great time to revisit this blog in the hopes that we can reach even more people. — Editor) At some … Continue reading

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Food Allergy Awareness Week: Allergic to Poison?

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So this week is light it up TEAL week for allergy awareness. I know many who had their fill of all things BLUE in April, so having another shade of it in May seems appropriate! Allergies are serious stuff, from … Continue reading

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An Open Letter to an Awesome Mom – A Food Allergy Tale

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Dear Mrs. So and So, Thank you.  Thank you for raising a child who, on his own, is thinking about other children and ways to include them.  He didn’t have to mention to you at breakfast that my son has … Continue reading

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Vaccines and My Autism

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October 5, 2020 James Williams is an autistic self-advocate who travels and speaks all over the country. He was invited to the Vaccine Injury Awareness Walk in Grand Rapids, MI, this week, and this is the vaccine injury story he submitted. … Continue reading

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Protect the Vulnerable?

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May 18, 2020 I will admit that every day of this triggers A lot of emotions. It’s hard to hear how everyone should be “in it together,” or that we have to “protect the vulnerable,” with nobody comprehending that this … Continue reading

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