Archive for the ‘Food Allergies’ Category
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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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
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
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
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
Peanuts and Pregnancy-A risk factor?
Maternal consumption of peanut during pregnancy is associated with peanut sensitization in atopic infants. S. Sicherer, R. Wood, D. Stablein, R. Lindblad, W. Burks, A. Liu, S. Jones, D. Fleischer, D. Leung, and H. Sampson. JACI 2010 in press How does peanut sensitization occur? How can we prevent peanut sensitization? What are the risk factors [...]
November 5, 2010
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Tags: Food Allergy, peanut, Peanuts and pregnancy · Posted in: Food Allergies, Peanut Allergy, Uncategorized
Peanut Allergy- A Review
    I came across this article ‘Peanut Allergy’ by M Pansare and D Kamat published in Current Opinion in Pediatrics 2010. This is a review article and the authors did a very nice job summarizing a number of import facts about peanut allergy. They have included many references for their statements which helps when trying [...]
October 14, 2010
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Child Care Conference Lecture-Food Allergy Testing
On May 19th, 2010 I participated in the Child Care Conference. This has been a Riley tradition for many years. My colleague in Pediatric Gastroenterology, Dr. Sandeep Gupta put this idea together on ‘Puzzling, Perplexing, Problematic Allergies in Children. He wanted pediatric allergy, dermatology, and gastroenterology to present together issues common to each specialty that [...]
May 24, 2010
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Tags: Food Allergies, Food Allergy Testing · Posted in: Allergy Testing, Food Allergies
