This section of the website includes information on immune system problems, infections, allergies, autoimmune diseases, immune deficiencies, and vaccines.
- Please Wash Your Hands: Life with Kids who are Medically Fragile
- Collaborating and Planning for Respiratory Season
- Beating a Stomach Bug When Your Child is Medically Complex
- A Cold Isn’t Just a Cold Around Here
- Skyelah’s Story: Living with Muckle Wells Syndrome
- Rueben’s Story: Rare Multiple Autoimmune Diseases
- Self-Advocacy for Children with Food Allergies
- Empathy, Inclusion, and Safety: The Impetus for Pursuing Oral Immunotherapy Treatment for Food Allergies
- GI and Behavioral Symptoms from Food Intolerances
- Treating Recurrent Infections: Are We Too Heavy-Handed with the Antibiotics?
- Immunoglobulins Explained: Everything You Need to Know about Antibodies, Infection, and Allergic Reactions
- Selective IgM Deficiency
- Multiple Drug Allergy Syndrome: Severe Antibiotic Allergies
- Celiac Disease in Individuals Who are Medically Complex
- Snow Globe Pee: Sediment in the Urine
- Preventing the Flu and Its Complications in Children Who are Medically Complex
- RSV: A Devastating Respiratory Virus
- Natural Medicine for Infection Prevention and Treatment
- Helpful (and Funny!) Products for Cold and Flu Season
- How to Keep Your Area Clean for Preparing IV Infusions or Tube Feeds
- Infection Control for Trachs
- Labyrinthitis: An Unusual Cause of Hearing Loss
Articles from the Archives
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- Another Treatment for Chronic UTIs: Gentamicin Instillations
- Strategies for Preventing or Reducing Parenteral Nutrition-Associated Liver Disease
- A Victory for Children Who Cath
- Keeping Your Central or PICC Line Safe: Using Chlorhexidine Products to Prevent Infection
- The NIH Undiagnosed Diseases Program: Diagnosing Rare Diseases
- Recognizing and Treating Fevers in Children with Complex Medical Issues
- The Never-Ending Sinus Infection
- Learning about Parenteral Nutrition and Central Lines: The Oley Foundation’s Online Training Modules
- New Innovations to Keep Central Line Caps Clean
- Our IVIG Story: Treating Immune Deficiency
- Phoebe’s SCIG Story
- Living with Primary Immunodeficiency Disease
- Gamma Globulin Treatment for Children Without a Defined Immunodeficiency
- Diagnosing Immunodeficiency
- Living with Eosinophilic Esophagitis
- Juvenile Polymyositis: Moving Past the Diagnosis
- Letting Your Dairy-Free Child Thrive
- Vaccinating Children with Neurological, Metabolic, and Neuromuscular Issues: A Call for Research
- Flu Shots for Kids with Medical Conditions or Vaccine Reactions