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Last month we launched our redesigned website, Neocate.com! Our goal for the new site is to provide even more support, answers and guidance for your family’s journey with food allergies.

In case you haven’t visited us online yet, one of the helpful new resources we added to help you find answers about your child’s condition is the Parent’s Toolbox. The applications in the toolbox were designed to help you identify, track and understand the different symptoms your child may be experiencing. 

Below are some of the different ways you can use the Parent’s Toolbox:

Confused about what is “normal” and what could be a sign of food allergies? Use the Symptom Guide and Checklist as a reference.

Knowing what symptoms to look for and understanding what they may mean is the key to finding relief for your child. These tools help you identify symptoms so that you know what to discuss with your doctor and dietitian.

Not sure what that long medical term your doctor just used means? Look it up in the Glossary.

Sometimes it can seem like you need to be an MD to understand your child’s condition with all of the terms that are used. Our glossary breaks everything down so that you can easily understand what everything means.

Want to educate yourself? Visit our Learn About Conditions page.

We’ve got detailed, easy to understand information on what causes conditions like Cow’s Milk Allergy, Eosinophilic Esophagitis and Multiple Food Protein Intolerance, what symptoms are generally associated with each one, and how Neocate can help provide relief.

Don’t forget that you can also connect with the nutrition specialists on the Food Allergy Living blog or at 1-800-NEOCATE for real-time advice and tips.

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