Food protein-induced enterocolitis syndrome

... along with...

It's called FPIES.

Okay.

Um, have you heard of that one?

Like, no, what I recommend to schools is that any kiddo who has a food allergy have a an anaphylaxis action plan pending.

They have an anaphylactic food allergy, right? We have our FPIES kids.

I see you.

You need an FPIES reaction plan, right? The school needs to know what to do if your child is sick.

The school needs to have the emergency medication available to provide your child.

And people, not just the school nurse, need to be trained on how to manage that situation.

I also ran into farming and really learned about raising our own food and butchering animals myself because my children were born, and they have severe food allergies.

They actually have multiple complex diagnoses, but one of them is FPIES, which is food protein-induced enterocolitis syndrome.

It is a rare form of food allergies that's T-cell based rather than your typical anaphylaxis.

And so for them, it meant that they were allergic to a lot of things, and I noticed that if we got homegrown or locally produced food, I had a lot more control over it, and they would be able to eat a lot more things.

So was that something that you knew from very early on? Was, like, that the food allergy, was that, like, from when they were babies or something that you realized as they were getting older and starting into solids?

So no.

With FPIES, there are two camps.

Either you have the children that don't have reactions until they start solids, or you have the children that react through the breast milk or through formula.

Mm-hmm.

And so should we be more thoughtful about B12 status in, in those kids? What about, uh, kids who have food protein-induced enterocolitis, or FPIES, a specific allergy to specific protein in some foods that causes tremendous vomiting a couple of hours after eating them.

Those children may have medically restricted diets because of-

Mm