Finding Resources

In finding my resources for my topic, I used the University library link. When trying to find what I was looking for took a while. Most of the articles were not interesting to me. I wanted somthing that would have an overview of food allergies in children, but the only thing I could find was over seasonal allergies. It took some time to dig in and find information on my topic that wouldn't make my essay sound boring in non-interesting to my audience. When searching for articles the first search word I used was "allergies". When all the articles started to pull up, nothing was for food allergies. I was mainly asthmatic allergies and seasonal allergies in children. So I decided to try "Food Allergies in Children". I found some articles, but they were mainly talking about how some children eventually as they get older grow out of their allergy. It doesn't always stick with you your whole like. There weren't many articles that I was looking for in my topic. They were mainly in seasonal allergies that everyone on has during harvest seasons. I asked my tutor if she could help me with trying to find some articles that covered my topic. She also struggled a little trying to find articles over food allergies, but as we started to narrow down on what exactly we were looking for, there were more that 200 articles that we could choose from covering food allergies and how severe they are. I am allergic to peanuts and what I learned from my topic is that your parents do not have to have a history of a food allergy. Sometimes they just come up out of the blue. Neither one of my parents have a food allergy, the only ones in my family that have a history of a allergy are my siblings and I. My 16 year old brother is allergic to the seeds on strawberries and is allergic to soy. My 15 year old sister is

severely allergic to penicillin. My youngest brother has a history of asthma and hasn't been diagnosed with a food allergy. As for me, I have asthma and I am allergic to peanuts. We have traced down our family history, and no one in my family has a allergy history. For some reason it started with my mothers children?