Food Allergy Awareness Week

May is a busy time in our house with birthdays, Mother's Day, my daughter's dance recital and many end-of-school events. It is also allergy and asthma awareness month, conditions that both of my children deal with on a daily basis. It is appropriate that my oldest's birthday, May 7, always falls right around Food Allergy Awareness Week (FAAW). It was an anaphylactic reaction to milk when he was 9 months old, that started our journey navigating life with food allergies. 

This year we spent the weekend celebrating Joey's 19th birthday and Mother's Day, leading us right into FAAW, which is May 8-14. I am happy to see so many resources and so many people raising awareness about food allergies. 

Allergic Living is running a series of inspiring articles throughout the week with the theme, "Let's Make the Invisible So Visible". Check out the Allergic Living lineup: For Food Allergy Awareness Week: Making the Invisible So Visible. You can also find resources and posters in the Allergic Living Food Allergy, Celiac and Asthma Awareness Month Tool Kit 2022.

I had the honor of talking to Merrill Debbs of Red Sneakers for Oakley  about the upcoming International Red Sneakers Day (May 20). The Debbs created created Red Sneakers for Oakley to raise awareness about food allergies after experiencing their own tragic loss.

I continue to be inspired by families like the Debbs, along young advocates also featured in my story, who are working to make the world safer for families like mine as we navigate life with food allergies. Red Sneakers Day 2022: Soccer, Social Media, and Child Ambassadors