Given her daughter’s problem, Zawadski said she is sympathetic to other parents of children with allergies.
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Heidi knows many other children and parents have the same worry on Halloween night. One such example is that of Nate Robertson, a nine-year old kid who was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes in the last year.
Food Allergy Canada launched the project for the first time in 2015 after the USA successfully adopted the program in the previous year.
The teal pumpkins on the doorstep of the Kenyon family of Vacaville promise a solution: treats that aren’t food.
It may not be your traditional way of decorating for Halloween, but three-year-old Austen knows exactly why he’s painting a pumpkin teal.
“I will be participating this year because I have become more aware of how many children have allergies and sensitivities that could make Halloween unsafe for them”, Pilatsky said.
“They can just run up like a normal kid in their little costume and say trick or treat and they get handed something that they can take in their own hands”, said Rizzo.
The concept behind the Teal Pumpkin Project is simple: participants paint a pumpkin teal and place it outside their home, as a way to indicate that they have non-food treats available. Homes that display a teal pumpkin outside on Halloween signals that it’s allergy-friendly.
She says a new landmark study is changing the way researchers are thinking about peanut allergies.
According to an allergy specialist near Lewisburg, one in 13 children has a food allergy. However a special pumpkin might help them stay safe on fright night.
Track down a few non-food goodies like glow sticks, crayons or playing cards.
As families visit Brown’s for the 38th year of fall fun, which includes upcoming flashlight tours of the six-acre corn maze, Santy says it’s the ideal atmosphere to teach the public about this worthwhile initiative.
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After finding out their daughter had a severe tree nut allergy, the Holbrooks in hindsight realize they missed signs of the affliction when she was younger. FARE has a flyer on their website that people can print out and then post on their front door, to inform trick-or-treaters that hypoallergenic goods are on hand.
