It has been a while since my blog has been sleeping. The Covid-19 Pandemic brought me incredible opportunities to expand my work experience within the food allergy world. But, my gratitude to be able to expand my passion of raising awareness has grown in gorgeous ways! One thing I feel strongly about and will continue to support is to support medically vetted research, inclusion, awareness, and information sharing. I still am getting my head around the Pandemic, the isolation, the healing, and the ten million other layers of living through a global crisis. As we move forward with newer version ..read more

This week a little teacher appreciation love was spread at my daughter’s school. The teachers were treated to fun snacks during their weekly development sessions and I signed up for chocolates. I love taking good care of our teachers. I love sharing food allergen aware treats too, so this was a match made for heaven. I made my favorite Chocolate Cluster Recipe, which was created based on an old Mrs. Field’s recipe, which I changed around to suit my food allergy needs. I wanted peanut-tree-egg-dairy free (these can be made gluten free, but I used Rice Krispies for this batch). But, instead of ..read more

Cyrus showing his fellow student where he carries his EpiPens at college Yup. That is a vague title since what we are talking about is perceived as vague. But it is not, so let’s go. Dear college student, Recently, a college student, Logan Lewis, died from a milk allergy. He didn’t feel well after eating in the dining hall and headed to his room. His dorm-mate headed back to the room and found Logan in the room, holding epinephrine auto-injector in his hand. He took it from his hand and injected him. But it was too late. People with food allergies work to reduce risk and manage their food ..read more

Inclusive eating can take many forms! I stole this line from my friend’s waste-reducing party invitation tool called Siitch. Well, it’s not a line actually, it is an option a guest can choose when they RSVP to a Siitch invitation, which is quite the beloved line for those with food allergies. Therefore, this post is for all of you fabulous hosts this holiday season! I would like to briefly let you in on few food allergy secrets. Given today’s stats of 32 million Americans with food allergies, I can safely guess you will have family members or friends managing this invisible health condition. O ..read more

Tomorrow is the big day! For me, Halloween is my most favorite Holiday! I love the fall leaves, the adorable kids in fun costumes and the excitement in the air. I also dread this day. Why? Every Halloween a friend or someone in our food allergy community experiences an allergic reaction. Some produce only hives and others are quite scary. The value of carrying epinephrine auto-injectors becomes crystal clear, yet with excitement at an all-time high, epinephrine is the one item that sometimes gets forgotten behind. I simply want to remind my friends and the friends I haven’t met yet, to pause ..read more

Amazing things happen when you lecture less and challenge young minds more. I always said, “the kids get it more than the parents do”. But I never listened to my own advice. Something mind-blowing took place recently when I worked with a group of high school freshmen. Instead of 30 agonizing minutes of what, why and how food allergies are dangerous to their classmates (which has value). We covered the basics and asked the hard questions: Why bother? We explored the school’s pillars and how do food allergies fit into the school’s belief system as we took a closer look at the meaning of risk red ..read more

Gather data via high tech is the new powerhouse tool for managing and controlling asthma, especially during a doctor’s appointment! This part two post is sponsored by Breathe Smart, the opinions, as you will see, are very much my own. Are you scratching your head too thinking how did the summer zoom by so fast? Today we’re washing uniforms, checking calculator batteries, and planning my son’s college senior year move-in next month. But this year is slightly different in a more powerful way. We took the BreatheSmart high-tech asthma management system out for a spin a few weeks ago during o ..read more

Hi-tech sensors combined with an app help my kids track their inhaler usage, symptoms and triggers. BreatheSmart comes with two sensors: rescue and maintenance, This post is sponsored by Breathe Smart, the opinions, as you will see, are very much my own. I heard, “hey Mrs. Moassessi, look over here.” A smiling 11-year-old boy with a messy mop of dark hair and bright shiny eyes was waiving his asthma inhaler in the air at a local outdoor street fair. Bursting with pride, he was showing off that he was carrying his asthma inhaler. My heart melted as I waved back, gave a thumbs-up as I shouted ..read more

The headlines are blazing across the Internet right now. I’m going to boldly say you are already hearing the good news from family and friends that, yes, your child’s allergy will soon be a thing of the past and peanut clusters will be back in Christmas stockings. As visions of peanut butter and jelly sandwiches dance through grandma’s mind, the cringe begins for parents of peanut allergic children. If only life was this easy! The reality is that Aimmune has released results from Phase Three of their study of AR101 – a peanut biologic oral immunotherapy (OIT) product – which is a great thing ..read more

Settling into a quiet table with a view, no kids, responsibilities or deadlines, just precious time to enjoy date night, I took my glasses off to the read the menu at the same exact time my hubby grabbed his reading glasses. I smirked at how silly we looked until the mother of all comparisons hit me like a lightning bolt! We both need glasses and have impaired vision. I can see close, but not far away. Hubby can see far away, but not close. Food allergies work the same way, yet our society is trying to solve the food allergy riddle with a single answer. We’ve been diagnosed in the same manner ..read more