This week is my daughter is attending our local public school for the first time. Previously, we enjoyed a fabulous charter school in town where everyone knew about her food allergies. Needless to say, she is very nervous about managing her food allergies with her new elementary classmates. We ordered a darling lunch box with a food allergy label from Allergy Apparel over the weekend and now we’re shopping tags. Special Note: Allergy Apparel so kindly has offered gratefulfoodie shoppers FREE SHIPPING with no minimum order! Just use the coupon code GRATEFUL at check out.
I just wanted to share the various food allergy tags and buttons we found…
- AllerGators–are very cute and fun Allergators delivering food allergy warnings. They sell it all: tee shirts, totes, lunch bags, buttons and even neon disposable wrist bands that could be quite valuable at camps!
- Allergy Alert patch and zipper pulls at Amazon — This is very straight forward…I like this concept for camp and even older kids when in a group situation for sports, camping, retreats, etc. I just placed my order for these for ski season for my kids since they are up on the mountains sans their lodge sitting parents.
- Allermate’sis a one stop allergy alert shop! They have it all…hip clothing with cool food allergy warnings, bracelets, even lunch boxes with food allergy warnings too. They even offer a cool new line of Allergy labels for foods, cupcakes and play dates! SPECIAL offer for Gratefulfoodie readers: Use coupon code GRATEFUL at check out to receive FREE SHIPPING with no minimum order
- Lauren’s Hopeline offers bright, whimsy character based bracelets, lunch boxes, dog tag necklaces and tee’s! The site is very cheery to match their Allermates characters! I can’t imagine any kid not loving this stuff!
- Lauren’s Hope has a line of medical ID including bag tags that can be attached to lunch boxes, back packs, etc.
- Etsy–Allergy Tags and More has created a nice range of cute Allergy Alert laminated tags.[/unordered_list]
One of the hardest things I find about managing both life threatening food allergies and asthma is talking to others. I hate to be the one that might be perceived as demanding, pushing or for asking too much. What I now know, fourteen years later, is that honest, clear information presented with kindness works!..