Archive for the ‘Food Allergies’ Category
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
Dichlorophenol Exposure and the Development of Allergy
This article appeared in the December issue of the Annals of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology and has gotten a significant amount of attention. I was interviewed by a local radio station about the article. When you interview for a newspaper or for  radio, you are never sure what the end-product will be. The interviewee is [...]
December 12, 2012
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Tags: Developing Allergy, Developing food allergies, Food Allergies, Pesticides and Allergy · Posted in: Allergies, Article Review, Developing Allergy, Environment, Food Allergies, Interesting articles
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
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
Another Resolved Peanut Allergy
The events of today come with very mixed emotion. There is great joy in Griffin’s household – the fear and trepidation regarding peanut allergy has been resolved. The young man underwent a successful peanut challenge today. He will now eat peanut products 3 or more days per week to stay tolerant to peanuts. We used [...]
October 3, 2012
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Tags: Food Allergies, Food Allergy Testing, Peanut Allergy · Posted in: Food Allergies, Peanut Allergy
Indianapolis FAAN Walk for Food Allergy-2012
  Get ready to support the Indy Food Allergy Walk. Johnette Cruz from WRTV 6 is our Honorary Media Chair and I get to be the Honorary Medical Chair for this event. The Food Allergy and Anaphylaxis Network (FAAN) is a great organization supporting families who are struggling with food allergies. FAAN keeps tabs on [...]
July 24, 2012
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Tags: FAAN, Food Allergies · Posted in: Allergies, FAAN, Food Allergies, Uncategorized
Eosinophilic Esophagitis – Children vs. Adults
Eosinophilic esophagitis in children and adults: what is the same and what is different. Straumann, Aceves, Blanchard, Collins, Furuta, Hirano, Schoepfer,Simon, and Simon This was a very interesting review article on a very frustrating clinical condition, Eosinophilic Esophagitis (EE). There were nine authors from the United States and from Switzerland. The specialties represented by the [...]
May 2, 2012
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Tags: Article Review, Eosinophilic esophagitis, Food Allergy, Gastrointestinal Allergy · Posted in: Allergies, Article Review, Food Allergies, Gastrointestinal Allergy
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
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
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
