Unlike packaged foods, cosmetics typically have no ingredients label making it impossible to know the compounds used in the product. Best way to avoid this is with a small skin test first.
The Atopic March from skin to lung
When my daughter was an infant, her pediatrician noticed eczema on her skin and he predicted that she would have asthma at an early age and food allergies starting in childhood.
Latex Allergy - Be Careful What You Touch and Breathe
It's been a few months since the last Latex Allergy Awareness Week in the U.S. This is a particularly difficult medical condition where touching or just breathing the air can cause allergic reactions.
Studying abroad is a life-changing experience
Study abroad programs are a great way to see the world for college students. Inspite of all the scary stuff in the world today, kids need to get out on their own, to discover the world, to be inconvenienced, to wonder, to learn to take a calculated risk, to say hello in a foreign language.
Visiting Rome's Pantheon and Vatican City
Anyone who has the opportunity to travel to Italy needs to go to Rome and in particular to the Pantheon and Vatican City. Yes there’s the Colosseum and other fabulous ancient sites and museums to visit but for me these two destinations were unexpectedly off the charts
Gluten Free with Shellfish Allergies in SE Asia
Read a customer's feedback about her trip to Southeast Asia:
"SelectWisely was a tremendous help to me on our trip to Southeast Asia...."
AAAAI Annual Conference 2020
Beginning in October 2019 we started preparing for our first big conference and were excited to let allergists and immunologists at the AAAAI annual convention know of our service.
Alpha Gal allergy from tick bites
In all of our years of providing food allergy cards to travelers we have never had a customer mention this allergy. Alpha Gal - from a tick bite!
Traveling to Spain
If you haven't been to southern Spain for a vacation, put it on your bucket list. It's not the food or the scenary that wows you - it's the history, architecture and culture.
AAA Northeast article on traveling with food allergies
Several months ago I had a phone conversation with a freelance writer who was creating an article for AAA Northeast magazine on traveling with food allergies.