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Living the Food-Allergic Life (Paperback)
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Living the Food-Allergic Life (Paperback)
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Loot Price R541
Discovery Miles 5 410
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If you had an allergy so severe that accidentally eating a
forbidden food could kill you in minutes--as you gasp for breath,
your throat and tongue swell shut, your blood pressure drops and
organs fail--how would it change your life, and your relationship
to food? For people with food-induced anaphylaxis, the severest
form of allergic response, simply eating in restaurants, accepting
invitations to dinner, going on overnight field trips, or traveling
through foreign countries means facing one's mortality with every
meal. In this book, Mark S. Ferrara weaves history, science, and
psychology to recount the story of his struggles with allergic
asthma and a life-threatening allergy to nuts--and his difficulties
living and working in the Far East and Near East--to show how the
quest for self-actualization can lead to an acceptance of
transience that borders on the mystical. Along the way, he guides
parents in keeping food-allergic children safe at home and at
school and offers strategies that adolescents and adults may use to
negotiate social spaces involving food. He explains how survivors
of anaphylaxis can cope with the sometimes-irrational fears of food
that follow that traumatic experience, so they may live happy,
healthy, meaningful lives.
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