Tips To Help You and Your Family Have a Safe and Happy Halloween

Kids love Halloween. But for parents of children with food allergies, Halloween can pose scary health risks that make every treat seem tricky.

🎃 READ ALL LABELS Many candies are made in facilities that process peanuts or other food allergens. Make sure you read ALL labels on your child’s candy carefully and be clear with them that they shouldn’t eat any candy without asking you first.

🎃 HAVE A “FUN” TRADE Before Halloween, stock up on holiday-themed stickers, pencils, notebooks, and small toys. Try bouncy balls, bubble makers, noisemakers, and vampire fangs! Then you can “trade” your child for their candy.

🎃 MAKE YOUR OWN TRADITIONS that don’t include trick or treating if you feel it’s just too risky. For example, you can put on your costumes and take the family to a scary movie or hold a neighborhood scavenger hunt that doesn’t involve sweets.

As a reminder, always pack your child’s rescue inhalers or epinephrine auto-injectors for Halloween parties or while trick-or-treating around the neighborhood. You never know when a reaction may occur, so be prepared.

Life with allergies can certainly be scary. But Halloween doesn’t have to make it even spookier.