Elizabeth White's first encounter with peanuts - a nibble of a peanut butter cracker at age 14 months - left the toddler gasping for breath. Within minutes, her airways were swelling shut.

Elizabeth White's first encounter with peanuts - a nibble of a peanut butter cracker at age 14 months - left the toddler gasping for breath. Within minutes, her airways were swelling shut.A mere fifth of a peanut was enough to trigger an allergic reaction.So it was with trepidation that her parents enrolled Elizabeth, at 4 1/2, in a groundbreak

Meds and Food for Kids was founded in 2004 by Patricia B. Wolff, MD, a pediatrician in private practice in St. Louis, Missouri and an Associate Clinical Professor of Pediatrics at Washington University School of Medicine. MFK works to combat childhood malnutrition and related diseases in Haiti, the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere. We use an exciting new peanut-based feeding approach called Ready-to-Use Therapeutic food (RUTF). RUTF brings malnourished children back from the brink of death, and currently MFK is the only organization working to combat malnutrition in Haiti through RUTF.