136: What Allergy? An Action Plan For Living with Life-Threatening Allergies

Living with one or multiple life-threatening allergies is not an easy thing to do, whether it is someone you care for or yourself. You have to read labels. A lot of labels, all the time, and over and over. You have to ask a lot of questions of others about how they prepared food and what's in the food. It can be terrifying, relentless and exhausting. And, every aspect of life seems to be driven and controlled by them. Ruth Holroyd is allergic to many things — nuts, dairy, soy, wheat, latex, nickel, dust, pollen — and has been to the intensive care in the A&E (emergency room in the UK), after being served milk by a pub. For Food Allergy Awareness Week, Tracy is talking with Ruth about her Action Plan For Living with Life-Threatening Allergies. Join the conversation to learn how she manages her allergies and how you can help her and the millions of others like her when preparing and serving food to them. Connect with Tracy: facebook.com/groups/EatingataMeeting thrivemeetings.com