Gordon, Sherri Mabry.

Peanut butter, milk, and other deadly threats : what you should know about food allergies / What you should know about food allergies Sherri Mabry Gordon. - Berkeley Heights, NJ : Enslow Publishers, cc2006. - 112 p. : col. ill. ; 25 cm. - Issues in focus today .

Includes bibliographical references (p. 109) and index.

What's the deal with food allergies? -- The body's response -- Food allergy testing -- A closer look at food allergens -- Living with food allergies -- What science is doing -- Food allergies and the future.

Discusses what it is like to live with food allergies, how teens and their families cope with them, the causes of food allergies, and the research being done to prevent and control them.

ISBN: 0766025292 (lib. bdg.) 9780766025295

LCCN: 2005029219

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Food allergy.

LC Class. No.: RC596 / .G67 2006

Dewey Class. No.: 616.97/5