Allergy Research Paper

Five years ago, I had my first encounter with allergies. My mother had just got home from the grocery store and she had purchased some cashews home and I realized I had never eaten cashews before. I tried a handful and nothing happened for a couple of minutes, but I noticed hat the cashews were really salty. I told my mom “these are good but they are super salty, its kind of bugging my tongue.” My mom came to the realization that I may be allergic to them and it started to get harder to breath and I began to panic. She gave me some allergy medication and I sat down for a while and ended up falling asleep. I woke up and my mom came to check up on me and I was back to normal. The next day I went to the doctor to get tested and I came to find …show more content…
It makes me feel mad at myself for not caring about it before. It took me almost dyeing to realize how serious food allergies are. My life has changed a lot since I discovered my allergy. I now have to ask restaurants every time I go to eat if they cook with any nut cooking oils and all the things that I used to eat with nuts are not an option for me. It is very disadvantageous for me because if I want to travel anywhere in the world my allergy holds me back from eating certain foods. If I moved away from home to a place where they speak another language I would be held back by that. I have to make sure I bring and epinephrine pen every where I go. I now try my hardest to educate anyone around me about my allergy and how serious all food allergies are. When I hear someone, I know has an allergy has an allergy I make sure to tell anyone around that is eating that they have an allergy. I feel that now is the best time to have an allergy. The school system is very helpful to people with any type of allergy and it makes it safer for the students and …show more content…
Now I feel that all allergies need to be noticed in our district. Foodallergy.com says that “eight foods account for 90% of all food-allergic reactions: milk, eggs, peanuts, tree nuts (e.g., walnuts, almonds, cashews, pistachios, pecans), wheat, soy, fish, and shellfish.” In that list, there is much more than just peanuts and tree nuts that have allergic reactions. Our community has come a long way with allergy awareness but I feel that we need to take it a step further. We need to make the rest of the 90 percent of allergic reactions aware to everyone in the community. Not just the schools, we need our restaurants and supermarkets to be aware of these allergies. I love what the Sweet Caroline Foundation has done to impact my world and the lives of many. I feel safer in my community, I kept the purple ribbon in my room since the day I got it a school. What a great idea it as to hand out the bracelets and ribbons to everyone it really gave food allergies the awareness that is