Food Allergies

I'm tipping my cowgirl hat to country music sensation Trace Adkins.  I don't claim to be a big country music fan, but I admire that Trace is using his celebrity status to help a good cause.  I mentioned before one of my kids is deathly allergic to peanuts.  He is in very good health and their could be way worse things to deal with and he's fortunate that he does not have asthma.  The problem is, if he accidently eats peanuts, he can die, so it is always a worry, no matter how safe he tires to be.  Accidents happen because something isn't labeled properly or there is cross-contamination, like an ice cream scooper that wasn't washed properly or anything with peanut traces.  Based on my knowledge, people at highest risk have both peanut allergies and asthma.  There is a very small window of time before you have an anaphylaxis reaction and stop breathing.  The treatment is immediate administration of epinephrine in the form of an EpiPen and a trip to the emergency room.  Its likely another shot of epinephrine is needed.

"Adkins was previously a January-March 2008 contestant on NBC's The Celebrity Apprentice. Each celebrity contestant on the show was playing for money for his or her own selected charity. Adkins was playing for the Allergy and Anaphylaxis Network, which provides education, advocacy and research support to families dealing with the daily nightmare of serious and/or life-threatening food allergies. The musician chose the charity because his 6-year-old daughter, Brianna, suffers from life-threatening reactions to peanuts, milk and eggs. Adkins made it to the finale as one of the two finalists."

Trace Adkins is the 2008 National Honorary Chair of FAAN's Walk for Food Allergy. (Food and Allergy Network)  He is donating the money from the performance on the Apprentice to FAAN.  If you are interested, you can download the song here from itunes.  Thanks.

http://www.foodallergy.org/