Archive for the ‘Allergies’ Category
Allergy-Problems from a global perspective
The global problem of Allergy I came across a very interesting and powerful editorial that summarized many issues dealing with the worldwide problem of allergy. Allergy is a major health problem-clearly not in everyone and not in the majority of the population. Worldwide allergy affects 10-30% of people. As far as a single chronic clinical [...]
February 2, 2012
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Tags: Role of the allergist, Understanding allergy, What we know and do not know about allergy · Posted in: Allergies, Allergy as a gobal problem, Allergy in Children, Developing Allergy, Environment
Indy’s Child- Peanut Allergy Post
 An article, Understanding Peanut Allergies: Considering the factors before you become peanut-free, appears in this month’s Indy’s Child. I was interviewed for a program called ‘Riley Speaks’ and this was a topic of great interest. A few things to add. I prefer the use of the term ‘peanut-safe’ in deference to ‘peanut-free’. The terms safe and [...]
December 11, 2011
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Posted in: Allergies, Allergy in Children, Food Allergies, Interesting articles, Peanut Allergy, Pediatric Allergy
Skin Testing for Aeroallergens
Position Paper: Practical guide to skin prick tests in allergy to aeroallergens I was alerted to this article by my partner Dr. Vitalpur. It comes from Allergy (European Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology) 2011 . The purpose of the article was to provide ‘pocket guidelines’ from a consensus report regarding the use of allergy skin [...]
November 30, 2011
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Tags: Allergic Rhinitis, Allergy Skin Testing, Article Review, Skin Testing Guidelines · Posted in: Allergies, Allergy in Children, Allergy Testing, Article Review, Asthma, Environment, Interesting articles, Nasal Allergy
Oral Food Allergy Challenges
This is a very interesting article on food allergy. It involves the use of diagnostics used to declare ‘food allergy’ and how this declaration of a food allergy can be verified by doing a food challenge. This work was performed at National Jewish Hospital in Denver, Colorado. The reference for this is – Oral Food [...]
October 4, 2011
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Tags: Article Review, Food Allergies, Food Allergy Testing · Posted in: Allergies, Allergy in Children, Allergy Testing, Food Allergies
Food Allergy Epidemiology- Prevalence, Severity, Distribution, and Disparities. A Review.
Food Allergy Epidemiology in the United States The July issue of Pediatrics has an article entitled, ‘The Prevalence, Severity, and Distribution of Childhood Food Allergy in the United States’ by R S Gupta, E E Springston, M R Warrier, B Smith, R Kumar, J Pongracic, and J L Holl. The bottom line from this work [...]
July 28, 2011
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Tags: Food Allergies, Food Allergy Epidemiology · Posted in: Allergies, Allergy in Children, Food Allergies, Peanut Allergy
Golden Rules of Pediatric Allergy- circa 1960
I was recently purging my files and came across this handout. Unfortunately there is no date, no author and there are no references for these statements. This was given to me during my pediatric clerkship at Rainbow Babies and Children’s Hospital (Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio). Pediatrics was my first clerkship. [...]
May 9, 2011
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Tags: Allergies, Golden Rules of Pediatric Allergy (circa 1960), Pediatric Allergy · Posted in: Allergies, Allergy in Children, Ancient Allergic Edicts, Golden Rules of Pediatric Allergy, Pediatric Allergy, Uncategorized
Allergic Eyes
Each spring we have many calls about eye symptoms. The frequency of this problem tends to be more in the month of April- perhaps the April showers and the significant winds stir up the pollen and the debris that has been frozen during those winter months. I also suffer with eye allergy problems- allergic conjunctivitis. [...]
April 14, 2011
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Tags: Allergic Conjunctivitis, Eye Allergy, Ocular Allergy · Posted in: Allergies, Conjunctivitis, Eye Allergy, Ocular Allergy
Notable Articles on Skin, Food, Drug, Insect Allergy-JACI 2010
In a very well done review article, Drs. Scott Sicherer and Donald Leung present the advances that were published in the premier allergy journal (the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, JACI) last year-2010. Reviews like this have appeared in the JACI at least since 2004. The topics included allergic skin disease, anaphylaxis, and hypersensitivity [...]
March 3, 2011
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Posted in: Allergies, Article Review, Food Allergies
Does allergic rhinitis exist in infancy?
Does the baby have ‘allergies’? How often has this question been asked? Better yet, how often are infants and young children subjected to extensive/ expensive testing and related therapies based on the idea that they are struggling with nasal allergy? This is a common concern and a common diagnosis. I am not sure it is [...]
January 15, 2011
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Tags: Allergic Rhinitis, Nasal Allergy, Nasal Allergy in Young Children · Posted in: Allergies, Article Review, Nasal Allergy, Nasal Allergy in Young Children
Summary of a Summary-Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Management of Food Allergy in the United States
In the December 2010 issue of the premier journal for allergists (my opinion), the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology (JACI), there is an article ‘Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Management of Food Allergy in the United States: Summary of the NIAID-sponsored Expert Panel Report’ . Many of our readers may not have access to [...]
December 31, 2010
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Tags: Diagnosis and Management of Food Allergy, Food Allergy Epidemiology · Posted in: Allergies
