Kara was diagnosed with food protein induced enterocolitis syndrome (FPIES) in August of 2010. She has had many FPIES reactions and complications that have lead to numerous hospitalizations and specialist appointments. It was a huge sigh of relief to finally have some answers and a diagnosis, however we have to remind ourselves daily that this is a very serious disease and this is only the beginning of the long road we have in front of us.

Wednesday, November 24, 2010

Food List: Our Menu

I keep talking about our menu and how we have it pretty well balanced out. Here is our most recent food list. This works great for the basics but dealing with this no dairy/no soy issue makes me crazy. I hope to post about our allergist visit yet tonight and explain a little more about the soy. I'm hopeful with this!

Basically, the list on the YES column is the ONLY foods Kara can have and if any of those foods have NO's in them, we have to stay far, far away. We  have a list of future trials and foods to stay away from, to trial at the very, very end, as our yes list grows. There is a list of common FPIES trigger foods that our allergist has requested we follow as some what of a guide. Kara follows that list with her classic rice/oat/dairy/soy FPIES but since she has possibly FPIES to pears as well, that really threw us for a loop as pears are usually on the "typically safe" list.

Yes                                              No                             

Corn                                             Rice                           
Banana                                         Oat
Green Beans                                 Dairy
Nectarine                                      Soy
Mango                                          Pears
Carrot
Tomato
Beef
Wheat
Grapes
Peaches
Pork

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