AllergicChild.com is the creation of Robert and Nicole Smith, the parents of a severely food allergic son, Morgan, diagnosed at the age of 9 months old in 1996 and a daughter, Michaela, diagnosed with celiac disease several years ago. We’d like to share our experience with you to help you keep your food allergic child safe, healthy and living as close to a ‘normal’ life as possible.

We would like to share 3 stories of living with food allergies: Our Story of Growing Up with Food Allergies, Our Story of Growing Up with Food Intolerance, and also our story of Experiencing Anaphylaxis. Please select a link on the right to explore these stories.

Nicole Smith is the author of Allie the Allergic Elephant: A Children’s Story of Peanut Allergies and Cody the Allergic Cow: A Children’s Story of Milk Allergies and Chad the Allergic Chipmunk: A Children’s Story of Nut Allergies.

She and her husband, Robert (Bob), own Allergic Child Publishing Group, the publishing company for Allie, Cody and Chad.

Nicole served as Treasurer for the non-profit organization, Kids With Food Allergies, Inc. and has helped school districts across theUnited Statesmanage food allergies and create safe environments for food allergic children. She was a founding member of her school district’s Food Allergy Task Force, which continues its mission today to assist students and families managing life threatening food allergies in Academy District 20.

In Colorado, Nicole was the driving force to get Senate Bill 09-226 introduced and passed into law requiring all school districts to have a policy to keep food allergic children safe at school. Two years of meeting with senators, representatives and board members of the department of education culminated in the bill being signed into law by Governor Bill Ritter during Food Allergy Awareness Week in 2009.

Nicole is currently serving on the Food Allergy Initiative (FAI) Advocacy Steering Committee to help build a strong nationwide presence for the food allergy community in the public policy arena, and to actively seek to increase federal funding for food allergy research. Additionally, she participates in the Food Allergy & Anaphylaxis Network (FAAN) Support Group Advisory Council and is an Anaphylaxis Community Expert for Allergy & Asthma Network/Mothers of Asthmatics.

Morgan has served on the FAAN Teen Advisory Group from 2011 to present. He and Nicole have repeatedly been speakers at FAAN Conferences across the USA speaking about managing food allergies while living a full life!