Archive for the ‘Allergy in Children’ Category
Interesting Items from the AAAAI Meeting- 2013
The American Academy of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology had their Annual Meeting in San Antonio in late February, 2013. As is the habit of this author I would like to share a number of items that I found interesting, thought provoking, and potentially practice changing. The meeting started on Friday and ended on Tuesday. There [...]
March 16, 2013
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The Food Allergic Child and the School
On Monday January 7th, 2013 I was invited to speak to a large group of school nurses about food allergy. The title was ‘The Food Allergic Child and the School’. For those unable to attend, just click on the title. That should direct you to Google Documents. The slides should be available to anyone using this [...]
January 8, 2013
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Tags: and school, children, Food Allergies, Food Allergy, Food allergy and the school, Food allergy lecture, School Nurse presentations · Posted in: Allergies, Allergy in Children, Food Allergies, Lectures, The Food Allergic Child and the School
Tree Nuts/Tree Nuts and Pregnancy: Avoid or not???
Should a mother eat peanuts or tree nuts during pregnancy? Will the avoidance of these foods help decrease the occurrence of peanut sensitization and allergic disease in the child? These are questions that we have struggled with for ages. This is an impossible question to answer definitively. How could you ever set-up an ‘experiment’ in [...]
October 10, 2012
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Tags: Food Allergies, peanut, Peanut Allergy, Peanuts and pregnancy, tree nuts and pregnancy · Posted in: Allergies, Allergy in Children, Developing Allergy, Food Allergies, Interesting articles, Peanut Allergy, Preventing Allergy
Allergy Fast Facts
The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) puts out a newsletter each month (AAP News). This month there was a few inserts; one dealing with the 2012-2013 Influenza Vaccine Guidelines and the other was ‘Fast Facts on Allergy Testing’. ‘Fast Facts’ was written by Dr. Scott Sicherer for the AAP Section on Allergy and Immunology. This [...]
October 10, 2012
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Tags: Allergy panels, Allergy Testing, IgG to food · Posted in: Allergies, Allergy in Children, Allergy Testing, Article Review, Choosing wisely, Interesting articles, Phadia Allergy Tests
Exposures to Peanuts
Inadvertent exposures in children with peanut allergy This is an interesting article. This theme has appeared in the literature previously, here it is done on a much grander scale with over 1000 children in the study. For those families/patients who start on this scary journey of peanut allergy an article like this gives an overall [...]
April 18, 2012
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Tags: Accidental Peanut Exposures, Food Allergy, peanut, Peanut Allergy · Posted in: Allergy in Children, Article Review, Food Allergies, Interesting articles, Peanut Allergy, Pediatric Allergy
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
Egg Allergy and the Flu Vaccine
A notice today has taken a significant amount of uncertainty regarding egg allergy and the flu vaccine. We have seen a number of changes over the past few years. The flu vaccine-egg connection is going down the pathway that the MMR vaccination has taken. The most recent recommendation is that all children should get the [...]
December 1, 2011
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Tags: Egg allergy and the flu vaccine · Posted in: Allergy in Children, Egg Allergy, Influenza vaccine
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
