What Are EAD's?
This is the full name for EoE.
What is Eosinophilic Esophagitis?
APFED stands for this.
What is the American Partnership for Eosinophilic Disorders?
This branch of the U.S. government creates laws and approves funding for research, including efforts supported by APFED.
What is Congress?
This type of medical test involves using a camera on a flexible tube to look at your esophagus and take tissue samples.
What is an endoscopy (or upper endoscopy)?
This is the doctor you might see for EGID's.
What is a gastroenterologist?
These white blood cells are a key part of allergic responses and inflammation in EoE.
What are Eosinophils?
APFED was founded in this year.
When is 2001?
This month is officially recognized as National Eosinophil Awareness Week.
What is May?
This term describes the removal of certain foods from the diet to help diagnose or manage EoE.
What is an elimination diet?
Many people with EoE use this to help carry their safe food to school or outings.
What is a lunchbox or food bag?
Eosinophilic gastroenteritis affects these parts of the digestive system.
What are the stomach and intestines?
These community members share their own stories to help educate others and provide support.
Who are Patient Advocates?
Sharing your story online or at school is one way to help with this type of outreach.
What is raising awareness (or advocacy)?
A medicine that reduces inflammation, sometimes swallowed to treat EoE.
What is a steroid?
To stay safe at a restaurant, you might need to ask the server to check with this person.
Who is the chef or manager?
This diet removes the six most common food allergens to help identify triggers in EoE.
What is the six-food elimination diet (SFED)?
APFED partners with this federal agency to increase research funding for eosinophilic disorders.
What is the National Institutes of Health (NIH)?
People who raise awareness help reduce this — a delay in diagnosis caused by lack of knowledge.
What is underdiagnosis or misdiagnosis?
This word means "having trouble swallowing".
What is Dysphagia?
People with EoE often need to read these very carefully before eating.
What are ingredient labels?
This type of asthma involves high levels of eosinophils causing airway inflammation and is often linked to other eosinophilic disorders like EoE.
What is eosinophilic asthma?
She is the President of APFED.
Who is Dr. Wendy Book?
During Awareness Week, APFED encourages people to light buildings and monuments in this color.
What is Purple?
This type of formula, often used in elemental diets, contains fully broken-down proteins to avoid allergic reactions.
What is an amino acid-based formula?
Worn on the wrist or kept on hand, these two things help others know what to do in a medical emergency.
What is a medical alert bracelet or emergency plan?