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...to discuss with your child’s school is the potential for bullying and work together to develop strategies to prevent or address it. Get Everyone Involved Many people (adults included!) simply don’t understand the seriousness of food allergies, interpreting you and your child’s concerns about food as pickiness or just “being difficult”. One way to teach other students about allergies and how to protect their classmates is the Food Allergy and Anaphylaxis Network’s Be a PAL...

...safe for all of the students in the classroom. This is not only more inclusive but it keeps the learning environment safe. Even with multiple food allergies, there are a wide variety of snacks and treats that can be served safely. Offer to bring safe foods to share. Prepare a specific list of safe snack ideas to keep other parents involved. This will give other parents an opportunity to bring food to share as well....

...get involved here. Our company leadership was so excited by this great initiative that they offered to cover the cost of non-food treats for trick-or-treaters with allergies. Since our employees are scattered across the United States and Canada, we know that our company can help make a difference for hundreds of families in North America! To add some excitement, we’re even offering a prize to the employee who has the most creative teal pumpkin. (Who...

...the digestive tract, either through a feeding tube or by eating regularly. So what exactly does it mean for the small intestine to adapt? We’ll focus on this subject in today’s blog post! What is intestinal adaptation? After a significant portion of the small intestine is removed, the remaining small intestine goes through a process of adaptation that increases its ability to absorb water and nutrients. What changes are involved in adaptation? The remaining portion...

...have you covered! Our Neocate Cookbooks are a great resource because you can find delicious recipes such as Cream of Broccoli Soup, Hamburger Harvest Soup, Vegetable/Cracker Dip, Neocate Shakes, Dairy-free Mac, and Cheese. Lunch-box planning doesn’t have to be something that you take on by yourself. Get your kids involved. Allow them to learn how to prepare their meals and pack their lunches. Empower your kids- let them have a say about their lunch box...

...daughters and I plan meals for the coming month. It’s a fun activity that everyone enjoys. Out come the cookbooks and the internet searches. We choose recipes that are appropriate for our special needs situation, simple to fix, and that elicit interest. We post our menus with pride on the refrigerator and keep copies of the past menus and recipes in our Family menu/recipe book to use again. When the kids are involved with choosing...

Looking back, my son had feeding issues from the very beginning. But, he was two months old when our gastroenterologist said the words ‘feeding tube’ during our first clinic visit. He was admitted after the appointment and subsequently received an NG tube. The NG tube was a relief and the terrifying feeling all at the same time. The relief came in that there was something we could do for him to get him...

How do you say eosinophil? It’s a question we hear often, especially during National Eosinophil Awareness Week. The answer is: ee–oh–sin–oh–fil. Eosinophils are a type of white blood cell that play an important part of our immune system, helping us to fight off certain types of infections, such as parasites. Many different problems can cause high numbers of eosinophils in the blood including allergies (food and environmental), certain infections caused by parasites, eosinophil-associated...