Paying Medical Bills as Simply as Possible By Margaret Hancock For those navigating FPIES – or any rare disease – hospital, specialist, nutritional, and additional medical bills can be quite confusing and time-consuming. I am grateful for a brief stint that I had with an insurance firm as I learned through Read more…
Winter can seem to drag on forever when your energetic little one can’t spend quite as much time running around outside. We’ve put together some ideas for indoor activities, as well as some tips on staying safe and healthy, to keep you and your children busy and happy until the Read more…
Traveling to Walt Disney World with FPIES By: LL McKenzi Soon after packing up and moving our family south, life turned upside down as our infant son was diagnosed with Food Protein-Inducted Enterocolitis Syndrome (FPIES). We were one of the first families here in the upstate of South Carolina to Read more…
When navigating through the FPIES reality, one of the more regular activities is a food challenge. When we began introducing foods to our son, several challenges resulted in days worth of medical attention. Now, each and every food introduction we do (whether the food is a typical FPIES trigger or Read more…
This post originally appeared on Hots & Olives, Joyful Living with Allergies and is being shared here today by author Margaret Hancock, food allergy and mom to a child with FPIES. It was kids night at the local Mexican restaurant and as part of the festivities, a balloon entertainer went Read more…
Before I had my two children, I was never much of a kitchen gadgets or appliances person. Most of what I needed to do in the kitchen, I could do by hand, and I didn’t want to pay for them, didn’t want to clean them, and I didn’t want to Read more…
Here, at The FPIES Foundation, we love food journals! You can find a page in the FPIES toolbox dedicated just to food journals and we are inspired everyday by the food journals you have created and have shared with us. We have shared designs in the past, you can revisit those in Read more…
March 30th was National Doctors’ Day. Doctors across our country were recognized for the dedicated and tireless work they do each day. Everyday, we acknowledge and appreciate the contributions of the many great practitioners that support our children and families affected by FPIES. We’d like to suggest some fun ways to show Read more…
Hospital stays can happen all too often for many families living with FPIES and we know it can be difficult to keep your little one occupied. FPIES parent Zack Skrip gave us some really great ideas back in June on Things to do in the Hopsital. Expanding on one of his Read more…
I was working on my master’s degree in health communication when I met my husband. Fast forward a year and a half later, I was sitting in the NICU with our newborn daughter feeling like I should have paid more attention to the practical aspects of the degree I had Read more…