Exciting New Tool - Online Diary
As most of you know, we redesigned our Neocate.com website in May of 2011. In case you haven’t paid us a visit, come on by. We added a few new online tools to help provide support and guidance to you and your family. Our new Parent’s Toolbox and Reference Library includes a symptoms guide, glossary and a symptom checker which have all gotten great reviews – thank you for the feedback!
Our website is always a work in progress and we will continue to work on providing new tools and resources. Our newest online tool that we are excited to share with you is the online diary!
The online diary is a perfect tool to use when you are trying to determine the right formula for your child, starting on solids or reintroducing foods into your little ones diet.
It is tough to remember or keep track of all the small (or big) symptoms or behaviors that may occur throughout the day and even more difficult trying to relate those symptoms back to a food if you’re not recording it somewhere. Keeping a daily diary of what your child eats and drinks – and any symptoms you see afterward – gives your child’s doctors vital information. It can help them identify what might be triggering any symptoms. This online diary makes keeping track of everything a snap.
Over the past few weeks, under the guidance of my little ones physician, I have started adding solids into my 6 month olds diet. Since starting, I've noticed a little rash around his mouth and chin. With the dry winter weather just starting and the drool from new teeth coming in I couldn't figure out if the new foods I was introducing was causing the rash or not.
So I started using the online diary to record everything that we did. When he took a bottle, when he ate solids, what he ate, when he was out in the cold, when the rash appeared, the severity of the rash, etc. With the help of the online diary I was then able to begin to see a pattern of when the rash was appearing - right after we fed him, every night. Could he really be allergic to peas? I still had my doubts but relieved to have a record of what was occurring to share with my doctor. Now we both had a clear understanding of what was going on and therefore were able to best determine the root of the problem.
I hope all of you find the online diary to be as resourceful as I do. Do you have any other ideas of useful tools you'd like to see on Neocate.com?
-Sarah
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