Tips for Managing Food Allergies
- In Your Home
- School, Childcare, and Camp
- Understanding Food Labels
- Dining Out
- Traveling
- Medical Identification
- Recommended Resources
To successfully manage your food allergy, your diet and lifestyle must change. While these changes may seem challenging and overwhelming at first, over time things will get easier.
At this time, no medication can be taken to prevent food allergies. Strict avoidance of the allergy-causing food is the only way to prevent a reaction. Medications are administered to control symptoms after a reaction occurs.
Planning in advance how to handle certain situations, reading labels vigilantly, and following avoidance strategies are the keys to maintaining control over a food allergy.
Carrying Medicine
Allergic reactions are never planned. If your doctor has prescribed medication such as epinephrine (EpiPen® or Twinject®), carry it with you at all times. Ask your doctor for a written plan that outlines when and how to use this medicine. Download a 
Food Allergy Action Plan form and ask your doctor to fill it out.
How to use an Epinephrine Auto-Injector
If you have been prescribed epinephrine, be sure to carry it with you at all times. Auto-injector "trainers" (a device similar to an auto-injector, but containing no needle nor medication) are available for you to practice with.
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