Through an online ethnographic analysis of a Facebook allergy group in Turkey, this article investigates how mothers carry out the daily process of managing risks and making decisions relating to the diets of babies with food allergies. Where allergy-management advice provided clinically by doctors tends to take the form of a relatively uniform and future-oriented risk-management process, parents making dietary decisions for babies with food allergies often need immediate advice that doctors cannot provide. To meet this need, many mothers complement the advice they receive from doctors with the knowledge and expertise of strangers online in making decisions about their children’s diet. Through a focus on how mothers engage with issues of allergy-related risk in an online community, this study demonstrates the different layers of temporality mothers navigate and the different strategies they employ in responding to allergy-related risk and how these co-exist, often complementarily, with the clinical management of allergies.

通过对土耳其 Facebook 过敏小组的在线民族志分析，本文调查了母亲如何进行日常管理风险和做出与食物过敏婴儿饮食相关的决定的过程。医生在临床上提供的过敏管理建议往往采用相对统一和面向未来的风险管理过程的形式，而为食物过敏婴儿做出饮食决定的父母通常需要医生无法提供的即时建议。为了满足这一需求，许多母亲在决定孩子的饮食时，会利用网上陌生人的知识和专业知识来补充他们从医生那里得到的建议。通过关注母亲如何处理在线社区中与过敏相关的风险问题，