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!
Happy 2021 to all! Now a full month into our New Year, we want to invite our community to join us in resolutions to spread FPIES education and awareness throughout 2021! With the state of the pandemic and many of us being homebound, outreach may be a bit of a Read more…
Global FPIES Day is honored on Oct. 14th every year. Established in 2014, this day is set by The FPIES Foundation to recognize Food Protein-Induced Enterocolitis Syndrome (FPIES) while empowering those living with the diagnosis by providing tools, support, and resources for every day. It is also a day when 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…
We are so excited to share with you that a children’s book about life with FPIES was recently published! The book, “FPIES – The Mystery that Made My Brother Sick“, was written by a fellow parent of a child living with FPIES and is a real-life story about her son. Read more…
We, at The FPIES Foundation, love to follow the research! These are our top 10 picks for FPIES articles of 2019 (in no particular order). Each of these articles brings some new data or novel idea to the ‘table’. We are so thankful to all of the practitioners and researchers Read more…
Rare in How We Care The theme of this year’s Rare Diseases Day was “Show Your Stripes.” I was so excited when I first learned this– I feel like this theme really reflects our rare community, particularly our FPIES community, where I see all of you showing your stripes each 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