My fellow food allergy advocate and friend Yael and her daughter were featured in these three short video segments on the TV show, The Doctors.  I am sharing these with my son’s school to use as talking points in home room and advisory sessions.  I was not seeking videos about life with food allergies, but I truly want students to simply understand one critical point right now:  Food allergies and anaphylaxis are life threatening and serious.  I believe these videos do the job just fine!   Check them out..

Yael explaining life threatening anaphylaxis.  Both images courtesy of The Doctors

The program I am using on this blogsite can’t handle three videos within one blog post, so here is the first video, followed up by the link to the two remaining videos.

Fatal Food Allergies…

Living with a Deadly Food Allergy

What Happens During Anaphylaxis

Bravo for Yael and her daughter for sharing her story.  Yael did share with me that the reaction featured in the video actually sent her into anaphylaxis 4 times in 3 days from one bite and in and out of ER’s.  After 4 Hospitals and biphasic reactions she ended up at UCLA Mattel Children’s Ward for a week.  Issues continued a month later she was re-admitted to UCLA where they did exploratory surgery with tubes down her throat nose stomach and esophagus.  Everyone thought it was anxiety but the internal camera’s and pics showed scaring on the lining of her esophagus ,so it took a year to heal and managing anxiety from the scarring and striations which mimicked throat tightening and more reactions.  Thankfully, Yael and Kylie are two spirited women and are taking the world by storm.  Yael is quite the food allergy advocate and I just had to share what she does:

I hope you found the Food Allergy Awareness videos interesting and THANK YOU Yael and Kylie for your continued dedication to educating others!