Allergy Runner for the iPhone: Features You Need With You Always

Personal Allergy List (PAL) Organizer

Use Allergy Runner for yourself or add multiple family members.
Establish a PAL for each person (or pet).
For each person you'll specify emergency contacts, doctors, allergens, and can keep a journal.
At any time you can turn Family Mode off or on. Turn it off to focus on one person and skip the PAL selection screen on startup.

Allergy Journal

Create time and date stamped notes about your allergic reactions, environmental exposures, meals, and snacks.
Take photos of labels to research later.
Take photos and notes of skin reactions and other symptoms to show your doctor.
After entering the details about multiple allergy episodes, look back over your older journal entries. Chances are good that you'll discover some exposure common to the reaction episodes and you'll discover you new allergen.

Allergen Categories

Your allergens are automatically grouped into two types of categories.
Static categories are based on the substance type: foods, chemicals, etc.
Smart categories are groupings based on the reaction severity you set and include: High Risk, Safe Foods, and Once Per Week Foods
Smart categories make it super easy to email the important allergen groups to your contacts.

Allergens

Allergens are any substance you want to track.
Reaction Severity can range from 0 (no reaction, no allergy) to 10 (life critical reactions).
Track your non-reactive foods to build a safe food list.
As your symptoms, sensitivity, treatments, and testing are updated a history is automatically created for your reference.
Each Allergen has fields to support the following info: Reaction Severity, Typical Symptoms, Treatment, Reaction Duration, Test Date, Test Type, Doctor / Lab, Test Results, Notes, Modification Date (automatic), Change History (automatic), 3 photos with labels.
Build your Allergen by selecting from our Incitant list or create custom Incitants.

Incitants

Create your Allergens by selecting from our master Incitant list.
Over a thousand Incitants are provided to speed creation of your Allergens. For purposes of this app, these are substances that can be tested in US allergy clinics (even if that is rarely the case). The Allergen record is a combination of the Incitant plus your personal test results, symptoms and treatment info.
Incitants are grouped into categories: Animal Proteins, Chemicals, Drugs, Fabrics, Food & Spices, Fungi Molds & Yeasts, Grasses, insects & Venom, Metal, Misc, Neurotransmitters & Hormones, Trees, Weeds & Other Plants.
Use our provided Incitants to take advantage of our future application and data updates. For example several common foods include a list of the various products that often contain the food ingredient. If you use our 'Corn' Incitant we can automatically update the product list for your Corn Allergen.
Create and Categorize custom Incitants as needed.
Your custom Incitants can include this info: "Found on food labels as," "Non-Food Exposure," "Products (sources)".

Email

Setup

Toggle Family Mode on and off.
Switch to see the Journal rather than Allergens on startup.
Set Reaction Severity Thresholds for the dynamic categories. Decide, for example, that High Risk Allergens are Allergens with severity level of 7 or higher.
Set your Safe Foods Threshold. This should probably be left at 0 or perhaps 1.
Set the range for your Once Per Week Foods. For example, foods with a reaction severity in the range of 1 to 4 could be appropriate for you to eat once per week.
Specify the mail server and account settings you wish to use for sending emails.
Purge Allergen and Journal photos.

Emergency Info

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