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Managing your child’s multiple food allergies can be a daily challenge. There are food diaries and elimination diets. There is eating in versus dining out. It’s overwhelming and time-consuming to find safe ingredients and substitutes to allergens. Now there is an app for food allergy management — Footsteps from Neocate. I spent some time exploring the app, and here are my thoughts about how it helps food allergy management. Best Feature for food...

We’ve discussed the Top 8 Allergens which account for 90% of all food allergies. These allergens are the main offenders in the US, but there are certain food allergies that are unique to certain regions of the world. EuroPrevall was a global research project funded by the European Union that looked at food allergy prevalence and patterns among various countries around the world. EuroPrevall revealed that there are major differences in the common...

At Neocate we offer a free service to help you find Neocate product access and coverage. This service is called Nutricia Navigator. It helps you do just that, navigate. The insurance landscape can be an intricate and confusing space. The bad news is that this landscape is getting more and more complex. Unique sets of terms, changing legislature governing medical food, and new private and government-funded health insurance plans are just few...

Infancy is a time marked by rapid growth, requiring important nutrition in the form of breast milk and/or infant formula. A doctor may recommend Neocate for your infant due to cow milk or food allergies and related symptoms, or you may need to add Neocate to an elimination diet. Any transition to a hypoallergenic formula like Neocate can present challenges. Many parents come to us with questions about the taste of formulas like...

We talk to familes who use Neocate all the time, usually when they call us with questions. The most common questions we get come from families who are new to Neocate and starting to use Neocate Syneo Infant or Neocate Infant, the infant formulas of the Neocate family. Remember: Your healthcare team is familiar with your little one’s medical care, so their advice and guidance is more important than what we have to...

I have many fond memories of play dates with my friends as a young child. But as a child with Type 1 Diabetes, my mother had to be prepared when dropping me off at a friend’s house to play. Before the playtime fun could begin, she would always have informative discussions with the family to ensure they were comfortable and understood my condition. First, my mom had to make sure that my friends’...

Eosinophilic Esophagitis (EoE) is a condition that is continuing to get more and more attention in the medical community, which means the public is learning more about it too. Management of EoE can be done either with medication or nutrition. Medications have known long-term side effects. Nutritional management has been shown extremely effective, but may be difficult to follow for some families. Medications used to manage EoE are all steroids. To date, no...