About 15 million Americans have been diagnosed with food allergies, including about 1 in 13 U.S. children, according to the nonprofit group Food Allergy Research & Education. The foods that most often cause severe reactions are peanuts, tree nuts, fish and shellfish, resulting in more than 200,000 emergency room visits per year.
In this exclusive interview, Beasley tells Lifescript how she navigates life, knowing that a bite of the wrong food could be lethal.
Your book title, Don't Kill the Birthday Girl, is catchy. What does it mean?
I always wanted to have celebratory meals on my birthday, like ice cream or pie. I wanted to see everyone light up with those foods.
Instead, I ate sunflower-margarine "Rice Krispies treats" or applesauce Bundt cake. Everybody else got the real dessert of brownies or cake.
After the others ate the good treats, I had to be careful not to be touched or kissed, which could cause an allergic reaction. It was hard to get it on everyone's radar that touching me was dangerous. My mother coined that phrase, and lots of people in my life adopted it: "Don't kill Sandra."
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