The holiday season is upon us once more! Whether seeing friends and family virtually or in-person, whether enjoying at-home celebrations or traveling far and wide for the festivities, it is a great time to relax and enjoy good company. Unfortunately for many of us, the holiday season can lead to Read more…
The resource is called “Book Creator;” some of you (particularly teachers!) may already be familiar with this program. We have established a virtual “library” at The FPIES Foundation’s Book Creator page and are now inviting families to create FPIES-themed books for themselves and for the library!
This is an open letter to all healthcare professionals from a food allergy mama and Registered Dietitian. I am writing to you as a mother to children with both IgE mediated and non-IgE mediated food allergies. As many of you are aware, allergic reactions commonly seen in the media are IgE reactions — Read more…
A guest post by Laura Benjamin, MD. No one expects to find themselves in the back of an ambulance with their six month old baby during a relaxing Florida vacation, but that’s exactly where I ended up. My husband and I, both doctors, and three other couples, all also doctors, Read more…
From every corner of our world, COVID-19 has impacted us all in one way or another. As I sit here in my living room, in a state particularly hard hit, the evidence of this impact is all too clear. The stress, the risk of catching this illness, the changes in Read more…
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…