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1 week ago | 
kevinmd.com | Lianne Mandelbaum |Amber Patterson |Kara Wada |Tiffany Owens
I’ve just returned from the Mary H. Weiser Food Allergy Conference in Michigan, an inspiring confluence of advocacy, research, and business, all focused on one shared mission: improving the lives of those living with food allergies. I’ve been attending food allergy research forums around the world for over a decade, and I can honestly say the momentum and possibilities in this field have never been more exciting.
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3 weeks ago | 
kevinmd.com | Lianne Mandelbaum |Amber Patterson |Kara Wada |Tiffany Owens
Why do so many people share their harrowing airline experiences with me yet never document them or file complaints? Some say they do not want to relive the trauma. Others feel embarrassed for having been ridiculed, either themselves or in front of their child. Many simply want to move on because, thankfully, nothing catastrophic happened. But silence does not equate to safety. If I am truly honest, my first negative airline experience was not the one that sparked my advocacy when my son was eight.
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2 months ago | 
kevinmd.com | Princess Benson |Horacio Romero Castillo |Erik Messamore |Lianne Mandelbaum
On a seemingly ordinary Sunday evening, a casual conversation with my mother took a terrifying turn. She mentioned a sudden, excruciating headache that had woken her from a nap. My medical training immediately raised red flags. Despite no prior history of such severe headaches, I recalled an isolated incident of elevated blood pressure. Instinctively, I insisted on checking her blood pressure again. Within 15 minutes, the readings soared from 182/120 to a dangerously high 215/105.
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2 months ago | 
kevinmd.com | Lianne Mandelbaum |Amber Patterson |Kara Wada |Tiffany Owens
Food allergies are a serious, life-threatening medical condition that remains widely misunderstood. For millions of travelers with food allergies, navigating airline policies is an unpredictable challenge, where inconsistent accommodations and societal skepticism create unnecessary risks. Those living with food allergies must often navigate a world that does not always recognize the severity of their condition.
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Oct 19, 2024 | 
allergicliving.com | Lianne Mandelbaum
The topic of flying with food allergies is once again in the news. This time, it’s not the umpteenth passenger being deplaned for requesting a food allergy accommodation. This time, it’s a scientific paper published in a U.K. medical journal that promises to bust myths about flying with peanut and nut allergies in particular.
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Jun 23, 2024 | 
allergicliving.com | Lianne Mandelbaum
The topic of nuts on planes went viral recently on social media, after Jack Fowler shared the story of his severe reaction in the skies. The Love Island TV star says an Emirates airline crew assured him a meal he was ordering contained no nuts. In fact, it contained cashew, to which he’s highly allergic. And as most of the world knows by now, Fowler suffered an anaphylactic reaction, after just one bite of his meal.
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May 15, 2024 | 
allergicliving.com | Lianne Mandelbaum
in Food Allergy, Food Allergy News, Travel & Dining Published: Allergic Living has been sounding the alarm for years on the urgent need for Federal Aviation Authority (FAA) to update the contents of airlines’ emergency medical kits. Finally, there is hopeful news to share on airplane EMKs. The U.S. Senate, followed by the House of Representatives, each passed an FAA reauthorization bill. Then on May 16, President Biden signed the FAA Reauthorization Act of 2024 into law.
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Apr 30, 2024 | 
allergicliving.com | Lianne Mandelbaum |Managing Allergies
Anyone who has seen someone they love, or even a stranger, in the throes of anaphylaxis will never forget it. Food allergy is a serious medical condition that can put you in the hospital or sometimes, even take a life. You’d think that a condition that can leave a person struggling to breathe, losing blood pressure, covered in hives and vomiting repeatedly would deserve respect. But you’d be wrong. Food allergy gets precious little of that.
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Dec 21, 2023 | 
allergicliving.com | Lianne Mandelbaum
It was through a New York City allergist that I heard about Skylar’s story of a frightening food allergy reaction at 35,000 feet over the Atlantic Ocean. The young medical research volunteer had taken an airline’s meal in May 2023 on a flight from New York City to Copenhagen. After completing her senior year of college, Skylar was excited to fly off to visit a friend in Denmark. What she didn’t appreciate: food allergy labeling in the air is not what it is on the ground.
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Dec 19, 2023 | 
futuremedicine.com | David Stukus |Ruchi Gupta |Douglas Mack |Lianne Mandelbaum
This is an abstract of the Plain Language Summary of Publication article. To read the full Plain Language Summary of this article, click here to view the PDF. Link to original article hereAcknowledgmentsDBV Technologies, a biopharmaceutical company, funded this study and would like to thank the children who volunteered to participate, their families and caregivers and those who conducted the study.
