Potential Psychology

With an increasing number of children in the western world diagnosed with life threatening food allergies, the parents of these kids can find themselves overwhelmed, and anxious, with their well being and mental health under threat.My guest for this conversation knows this from lived experience. When her third child, Caleb, was just four months old he was diagnosed with multiple food allergies. At that moment Callie Mackenzie and her family were plunged into a world in which nothing felt safe.Callie was overwhelmed by the responsibility of feeding her family in the face of multiple allergies. The thought of leaving Caleb in someone else's care, starting preschool or school seemed unimaginable and much of the joy was drained from food and the life surrounding it.In this episode Callie, a trained medical doctor, shares some of what she has learned in the three years since. We discuss: •Current understanding within the medical community of the causes of food allergies •The social isolation that comes with a chil