Health & Fitness

ALLERGIES

Living Free

Walk for Food Allergy allows 8-year-old participant to be like other kids.

Julie Mison
Special to the Jewish News

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lexandra (Alex) Mison, 8, of
Commerce Township will get
the chance to be just like the
other kids on Sept. 25. She won't have
the usual concern about what she will
eat or what foods she will be around.
She won't have the usual fear that she
may accidentally come into contact with
a food that may cause her a life-threat-
ening reaction. On this day, she won't
have to be the one that is different.
Alex will participate as the child
ambassador in the fifth annual FAAN
(Food Allergy & Anaphylaxis Network)
Walk for Food Allergy and Allergen
Friendly Carnival at 11 a.m. Saturday,
Sept. 25, at Kensington Metropark's

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Martindale Beach near Milford. She will
be able to act and eat like everyone else.
She will be around hundreds of other
children and their families that know
what she experiences every day.
Alex has been unable to eat any dairy
products since she was a baby. No milk,
no ice cream, no mac and cheese, no
pizza, no milk chocolate or many of the
usual childhood favorites. Alex isn't just .
allergic to dairy, she also is allergic to
peanuts and tree nuts.
If Alex consumes even the tiniest bite
of any of these foods or comes in con-
tact with them, she will begin to have
an itchy tongue or throat, hives, possibly
an asthmatic reaction — even anaphy-
laxis, a life-threatening reaction. Forever

Living Free on page 12

The Mison family: Ava, 7, Julie, Alex, 8, and Christopher

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