Healthy Living, Special Needs, and Allergies
Tonight’s tip brought to you courtesy of Poison Control. If you or your child takes multiple medications that are similar in appearance, color code the bottles. This can help prevent a medication error. Medication errors occur daily in the US: https://psnet.ahrq.gov/primers/primer/23/medication-errors While many factors can contribute to medication error, in this case we identified that … Read more
Fo Global FPIES Day 2017, I would like to share our story with you. FPIES stands for Food Protein-Induced Enterocolitis Syndrome, which is a poorly understood, non-IgE mediated allergic condition. While our oldest daughter has many diagnoses, FPIES is the one that has the biggest impact on our daily lives. This is a short clip … Read more
Originally published July 2014 A few months ago I came across the idea of using camel’s milk as an alternative for children with allergies to cow’s milk. Camel milk is a healthy dairy alternative, having only a 5% cross reaction with cow milk. This was particular interesting to me, since Little Wiggles had reacted to … Read more