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With the first few days of Back to School under way and the jitters and stresses of a new routine calmer and more relaxed. It is a great time to top up your child's wardrobe with a stylish Blue Bear Aware allergy aware t-shirt. Alert teachers, school support staff and coaches of your child's allergies. Today until Sept 24, 2011 all allergy aware t-shirts are 40% off. Place the code ' SCHOOLSIN ' in the coupon box at the check-out page to receive your savings!* ___________________________________________ *This is a Blue Bear Aware credit and is not redeemable for cash. This Promotion cannot be applied to previous orders or used with another promotion. Offer valid until Sept 24, 2011. Sale items are excluded from this discount. Please feel free to share with a friend

Dear Kids + Allergies Readers, this back to school season receive 15% of your order of allergy gear at Blue Bear Aware, http://www.bluebearaware.com/ . Place the code BTSCH in the coupon box at the check-out page to receive your savings. (Min order $45. Valid until Sept 7th, 2011). Thank you for visiting Blue Bear Aware and the work you do in the allergy community.

Make going back to school fun with the right allergy alert gear ! As your child must have their epi-pen on them at all times from JK kindergarten to elementary classrooms to high school, check out our assortment of fun and classy auto-injector pouches. Receive $10.00 off your order of $60.00 (BTS11) or $20.00 off your order of $115.00(BTS11x) on your Back to School Allergy Gear! Place the appropriate code in the coupon box at the check out and Save!* _________________________________________________ Please feel free to share this email with a friend. *sale items count towards dollar minimum but are not applicable to discount. Minimum purchase $60.00 for code BTS10 and minimum purchase $115.00 for code BTS10x. This promotion cannot be applied to previous orders or used with another promotion. This is a Blue Bear Aware credit and is not redeemable for cash. Offer valid until August 21, 2011.

Avoiding Milk Protein has found an alarming number of industrial products containing nuts. Instead of sand blasting buildings with sand some companies are using walnut shells, a possible airborne hazard for those with nut allergies. Spray tans using walnut shells are also being used in some spas. Peanut fuel is an old bio fuel that does appear from time to time, even today. Another strange use for nuts, are mixing walnut shells with pool deck paint instead of sand to prevent slipping around the pool deck. Crushed almond shells are even being used to manufacture building supplies. Some companies are experimenting with peanut and other tree nut shells in water purification. Little is known about if the allergen proteins are still in these products. Imagine a nut allergic chimney sweeper being called to clean a chimney or stove only to find out from a reaction that fire logs made from tree nuts were recently used in the chimney, or a stove was powered by peanut pellets, these prod...

Allerdine is a great resource for families with food allergies while traveling on your summer vacation. AllerDine.com was created in November of 2009, by parents of severe food allergic children who felt the need to find a way to dine out safely. AllerDine.com is a user based website that is designed to get allergic families out of the kitchen and dining out with the right information. Restaurant listings are searchable by allergen user profile. To be listed each restaurant is approached with the need to answer very specific questions on how they handle food allergies. Only restaurants specifically contacted by the food allergic staff of AllerDine.com , or first-hand user experiences are in the database along with reviews of their experiences. With over 700 restaurants in Chicago, Detroit, Orlando, Toronto, Denver, New York, Houston, Boston, Atlanta and many more cities to be added soon, AllerDine.com is starting to make a difference. Each restaurant is asked very specific food all...