Mothering Through It: Dr. Ruchi Gupta on Guilt & Grace in Food Allergy Parenting

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Season 4: I Don't Want to Talk About It
In this special Mother's Day episode, I'm joined by one of the world's leading allergy researchers — who also happens to be a food allergy mom. While Dr. Ruchi Gupta's professional credentials are impressive, today’s conversation focuses on something even more powerful: her personal experience raising a child with food allergies.

We talk openly about the emotional side of this journey — the guilt, the vigilance, the second-guessing — and share some laughter over things that only food allergy moms will truly understand. It’s a candid, heartfelt conversation about what it means to carry both the clinical knowledge and the lived reality of food allergy parenting.

Some of this episode's many highlights:

• Role playing to educate our children
• Dr. Gupta's sneaky way of making sure her daughter was reading food labels carefully
• Her daughter's allergic reaction at a recent family event
• Gaining and losing allergies during/after pregnancy
• Different approaches of food allergy Moms/Dads and why both are useful
• The positive impact of food allergies on our kids' development

Links from this episode:

• @drruchigupta_
• @cfaarnu
• CFAAR Home Center for Food Allergy & Asthma Research: Feinberg School of Medicine
• 2025 CFAAR FOOD ALLERGY SUMMIT Center for Food Allergy & Asthma Research: Feinberg School of Medicine

Special thanks to Kyle Dine for permission to use his song The Doghouse for the podcast theme!
www.kyledine.com

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-thefoodallergypsychologist.com
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-Facebook: Dr. Amanda Whitehouse, Food Allergy Anxiety Psychologist
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