News — FPIES

Happy Rare Disease Day! While Sweet Baby has FPIES and it’s considered a rare disease, we’re thankful that she’s happy and healthy otherwise! There are so many other rare diseases and today is a day we raise awareness!  Rare Disease Day is an annual, awareness-raising event that is co-ordinated by EURORDIS,  National Alliances and Patient […]

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In recent years there have been increases in food allergies and with that increase we’ve seen a ton articles like this.  I’ll sum the article up for you.. The woman is complaining that children without allergies cannot bring “the lovely, homemade, buttery, gluten-stuffed cake.”

Having a child with an allergy isn’t easy, but these kitchen gadgets have made our experience in the kitchen a bit more enjoyable.  Finding everyday products that are ready to go was nearly impossible so with all of these we’re able to control the ingredients, nutrition, and of course we have fun doing it! 

Drinkable Yogurt for Baby.  Have you ever tried them?  I have purchased them once for Sweet Baby and since she has FPIES we have to be extremely careful about the ingredients as she has an allergic reaction to certain things.  One thing we’ve noticed is we have to steer clear of natural flavors.  Natural Flavors could literally be anything.   It was a major let down – especially since we couldn’t wait to buy yogurt for baby.

My Sweet Baby Girl.. FPIES hasn’t been easy and not the fun in the least bit, but when we have a food pass it’s like Christmas morning!  When we do trial there’s no way to know if she’ll pass or fail the food, just hope and fear.  FPIES isn’t something you can predict, and that’s […]

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