{"id":5305,"date":"2007-10-25T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-25T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.dev\/?p=5305"},"modified":"2024-02-01T10:26:33","modified_gmt":"2024-02-01T15:26:33","slug":"happy-healthy-halloween","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/blog\/happy-healthy-halloween\/","title":{"rendered":"Have a Happy, Healthy Halloween!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/wp\/images\/pumpkinapples.gif\" alt=\"Healthy Halloween\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" \/>Halloween can be an scary time of year &#8211; especially for children with food allergies and their parents.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.healthnewsdigest.com\/news\/Children_s_Health_200\/Trick-or-Treat_Your_Way_to_an_Allergy-free_Halloween.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">HealthNewsDigest.com<\/a>, the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology (AAAAI) offers the following advice:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>When classroom parties are planned, parents can help by packing treats from home that their food-allergic child can eat. Create a &#8216;candy swap&#8217; with siblings or friends so that allergen-containing candies can be traded for other treats such as stickers or toys. Additionally, for a special touch during Valentine&#8217;s Day celebrations, consider organizing a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chocolateshippedcookies.com\/product\/valentines-day-cookies\/\">valentines day cookies delivery<\/a> to ensure everyone can enjoy a sweet and safe treat.<\/li>\n<li>Take the focus off of trick-or-treating by hosting a costume party that emphasizes fun instead of candy. Halloween stickers, pencils, spider rings and stamps are great alternatives for goody bags.<\/li>\n<li>Provide neighbors with allergy-safe candies for your child or ask neighbors to hand out only candy with individualized labels-so kids with allergies can determine whether the treat is safe to eat or not. (I plan to give <a href=\"http:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/stuffed-dust-mites.asp\">stuffed dust mite toys<\/a> to the trick-or-treaters in my neighborhood!)<\/li>\n<li>Teach children to politely refuse offers of cookies and other homemade treats.<\/li>\n<li>Remember that candy ingredients can vary for different sizes of the same product such as full-size candy bars and their miniature versions, which are not always individually labeled.<\/li>\n<li>Always carry emergency epinephrine! Clip on an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/acc-ana-tote.asp\">Ana-Tote<\/a> for convenient carrying of your epi-pen or ana-kit.<\/li>\n<li>If your child has ever had an allergic reaction to a food, or has a history of food allergies, seek the care of an allergist\/immunologist for a follow-up evaluation and to discuss treatment and environmental control options. For more information, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aaaai.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AAAAI<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/food-allergy.asp\">See Food Allergy Products<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Halloween can be an scary time of year &#8211; especially for children with food allergies and their parents. According to HealthNewsDigest.com, the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology (AAAAI) offers the following advice: When classroom parties are planned, parents&hellip; <\/p>\n<ul class=\"post-categories\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/blog\/category\/news\/\" rel=\"category tag\">News<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[188],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5305"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5305"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17274,"href":"https:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5305\/revisions\/17274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}