Archive for the ‘Allergy in Children’ 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
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
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
Swimming and Asthma
All too often I hear in my allergy/asthma clinic about how a swimming pool affects the child’s breathing. The assumption is that the chlorine or mold is aggravating the respiratory tract. All too often the evaluation for mold allergy is negative and we would consider chlorine as a possible irritant for the inflamed, hyper-reactive airways. [...]
May 23, 2011
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Tags: Article Review, Asthma and Atopy, Swimming · Posted in: Allergy in Children, Asthma, Interesting articles, Swimming and asthma
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
