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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 2013 DECATUR, ILLINOIS LIFE D5 www.herald-review.com FDA OKs Botox to treat crow's feet Fighting food allergies with fun McClatchy-Tribune News Service It's getting easier for Baby Boomers to hide their years. Federal regulators for the first time have approved Botox injections to temporarily ease the appearance of crow's feet. The Food and Drug Administration recently approved the drug, made by Irvine, Calif Allergan to treat wrinkles that form on the outside edge of the eyes. The decision comes 11 years after the FDA approved Botox for the temporary improvement of wrinkles between the eyebrows, known as frown lines. Now, Botox can be used to treat frown lines and crow's feet at the same time Botox temporarily paralyzes facial muscles, making wrinkles appear less prominent.

The drug is a purified form of the toxin botulinum. Botox has previously been approved for the treatment of chronic migraine headaches, underarm sweating and eyelid spasms. SEA LIFT CHAIRS allergies such as peanuts, nuts, gluten and wheat, milk, eggs, shellfish, penicillin, insect stings, latex, pollen, fish, soy, sesame and cat. The wristbands featuring the characters are sold for $6.99 on AllerMates' website. While AllerMates started as an allergy-awareness product, Shamus said her business has grown to include asthma and epilepsy awareness products as well part of her plan to expand her company.

AllerMates announced in April the company would roll out EpiPen, Auvi-Q and asthma inhaler carrying cases as part of National Asthma and Allergy Awareness Month. Shamus said AllerMates has already taken orders on the products and should be shipping out within the next week. "We don't want to just offer allergy products, we want to offer education," Shamus said. "We want to create videos with the characters that will teach kids about their allergies. We could make books but what I really want is to have a whole world of characters for children with these kinds of health McClatchy-Tribune News Service Nanuet, N.Y.

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"I wanted to figure out a way to not only protect kids, but educate them. So I thought about different fun characters who represent different allergies and by doing this, it protects them but also makes the kids feel good about themselves." Starting with characters such as a baseball cap-wearing peanut named Nutty" and a walking milk carton aptly named "Pint," Shamus turned Nanuet, N.Y.-based AllerMates from a manufacturing order in 2009 into a full-time business in 2011 and has watched her late-night passion project become a multimillion-dollar product. Shamus' concerns about bJ tacebook.tr mmmJiWs Mii MiiM? 1 attorney about IRS lien AllerMates help teach kids what foods to avoid By ANDREW WYRICH McClatchy-Tribune News Service Writer HACKENSACK, N.J. A company created four years ago by an Upper Saddle River, N.J., mother worried about her preschooler's food allergies has grown into a multimillion-dollar business that is seeing a healthy boost in sales this back-to-school season. AllerMates, the brainchild of Iris Shamus, sells wristbands, medicine cases, charm bracelets and dog tags emblazoned with cartoon characters as a way of combining food allergy awareness and fun for the 3 million children in the United States affected by food allergies including her son.

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