«Usually animals don't
die from a food allergy, but it does affect their quality of life,» says Shmalberg.
Not exact matches
She grew up on an 88 - acre farm in central Massachusetts with a family who had a «love affair with
food» and only became aware of the problem of
food allergies when her husband and company co-Founder almost
died on the couple's fourth date
from an anaphylactic reaction to tree nuts.
About 150 people
die each year
from food allergies, about half of them
from reactions to peanuts, she said.
Whenever you read about a kid who
died within minutes of eating at a fast -
food joint or after breathing in the peanut dust
from a friend's candy wrapper, that's an «IgE - mediated»
food allergy.