Archive for the ‘Allergy Testing’ Category
Choosing Wisely- Tests and Procedures used in Allergy
With great regularity, our section (Pediatric Pulmonary, Allergy, and Sleep Medicine at Riley Childrens Hospital) offers a CME program. The sponsor (the sancting of the CME)Â is the Indiana University School of Medicine, Continuing Education Department. Michell Howenstine MD, has organized this program since its inception and she tries to select topics that not only are [...]
March 14, 2013
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Tags: Allergy, Allergy and Choosing Wisely, Allergy Tests and Procedures, and Sleep Medicine Conference, Choosing Wisely Campaign, Contemporary Clinical Challenges: Pediatric Pulmonary, Evidence-based recommendations in Allergy- Choosing Wisely, Riley Pediatric Pulmonary Allergy Update, Tests that may be unnecessary or cause harm · Posted in: Allergy Testing, Choosing wisely, Meeting Updates, Riley Pediatric Pulmonary Allergy CME
ALCAT- Antigen Leukocyte Cellular Antibody Test
There are a significant number of tests available that are used in the diagnosis of allergy. There are numerous posts on this site about allergy testing. Some allergy tests are considered gold standards, some are state of the art, and others are just plain nonsence. Appropriate and valued allergy tests results, when linked to a [...]
October 15, 2012
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Tags: Food Allergy, Food Allergy Testing · Posted in: Allergy Testing, Food Allergies, Interesting articles
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
Choose Wisely Campaign
How would you like to undergo a blood test or have your child undergo a blood test only to discover that the test is of no clinical value in the day to day diagnosis and management of a medical condition? What if that test gave a result that was contrary to your own observations or [...]
July 17, 2012
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Tags: Allergy Testing, Appropriate tests in allergy, Choose Wisely, Food Allergy Testing · Posted in: Allergies, Allergy Testing, Choosing wisely, Interesting articles, Questioning tests and procedures
Things Patients and Physicians Should Question
It would seem that there is significant amount of interesting material in the news. This is my 4rth post in two days. I subscribe to ‘MedPage Today’- an online source for hot topics. This hot topic appeared in the Indianapolis Star yesterday. It is of note and it is comforting to see in print efforts [...]
April 5, 2012
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Tags: Food Allergy Testing, Role of the allergist, Unnecessary Tests · Posted in: Allergies, Allergy Testing
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
Using the Phadia Microarray for Peanut Allergy-Wishing it was readily available.
Yesterday (March 28, 2010), I saw a young lady of 4 years in our allergy clinic at the Riley Outpatient Center for concerns about peanut allergy. She had one of those infrequently seen presentations, at least infrequent in my pediatric peanut population. Her symptoms were most consistent with the oral allergy syndrome. The symptoms were [...]
March 29, 2011
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Tags: Food Allergies, Peanut Allergy, Phadia · Posted in: Allergy Testing, Food Allergies, Peanut Allergy, Phadia Allergy Tests
What to do about all those positive food allergy test results- The New Food Allergy Guidelines-2010
Undoing some of what has already been done? Our Indianapolis Star posted a story from Shari Roan. Ms Roan is reporter for the Los Angeles Times. The title of the article in the Star was ‘You may be allergic to a food . . . or not’ . The original article by Ms. Roan had [...]
December 10, 2010
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Tags: Food Allergies, Food Allergy Guidelines, Food Allergy Testing · Posted in: Allergies, Allergy Testing, Egg Allergy, Food Allergies, Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Management of Food Allergy
A Practical Approach to Food Allergy
This lecture was given at our Pediatric Pulmonary Update: Today’s Challenges – November 3, 2010 at the Ritz Charles, Carmel, Indiana. Our Section of Pediatric Pulmonology, Critical Care, and Allergy at Riley Hospital for Children offers this CME program every two years. This year’s topics came from requests from primary care physicians. The title was [...]
November 13, 2010
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Tags: Food Allergies, Practical Approach to Food Allergy · Posted in: Allergy Testing, Food Allergies, Lectures
