Planning meals for children can be challenging. You have to come up with a dish that is not only appealing to them but is also packed with nutritious ingredients that sometimes your child probably doesn’t like, and these difficulties grow tenfold when it comes to prepping meals for children with Read more…
Because we like to bring our community resources that may be helpful to them for the everyday, we sat down with Margaret Schmitt who is the creator/writer of “Allergy Hospitality”, an allergen friendly cookbook. This cookbook isn’t just for those living with food allergies but also for the friends and Read more…
We love and appreciate the allergy friendly companies that provide foods to help expand our children’s diet. Today we would like to share a little about one of those companies, Amanda’s Own Confections. As always, be sure to contact the manufacturer to best determine whether or not the product may Read more…
This gap between patients and clinicians was evident upon my son’s diagnosis, but was becoming more clear the more we learned about FPIES. Fortunately, the FPIES Foundation created the FPIES Global Patient Registry
As we celebrate our seventh anniversary at The FPIES Foundation, I have been looking back over the years since our beginnings and since the start of my own family’s FPIES journey. I smile as I remember families that have come and gone from our community. Even though they may have 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…
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…
Here at the FPIES Foundation, we are always on the lookout for other organizations that can help your child and family through the daily struggles and challenges of FPIES. We are therefore delighted to announce that we have recently partnered with the Children’sMedical Nutrition Alliance (CMNuA). To help you understand more Read more…
Every family is unique and weaves an important piece in our overall understanding of FPIES as well as the impact– medical and non-medical– this rare diagnosis has on our families, children and professionals. As you read the story that follows, please remember that though your family’s story may differ in Read more…
The FPIES Foundation is excited that the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) now recognizes Food Protein-Induced Enterocolitis Syndrome (FPIES), and has appointed it with diagnostic code K52.21, among allergic digestive diseases. This is a step that has the building blocks to make diagnosis and medical/formula coverage easier for a lot of children Read more…