Archive for the ‘Food Allergies’ Category

FPIES- Food Protein-Induced Enterocolitis Syndrome

Last week I had the pleasure of meeting a young lady with infantile FPIES. Both of her parents were with her for the evaluation.  The family alerted me to a contribution to the literature written by allergists for a condition that may not be commonly seen by an allergist. What I learned from that encounter [...]

February 17, 2010  Tags: , , ,   Posted in: Food Allergies, Gastrointestinal Allergy, Interesting Stories  6 Comments

Red Cheeks- Is it a food allergy?

Frey’s syndrome – a masquerader of food allergy?
We have seen many children who were evaluated for food allergy and/or who were brought by parents to be evaluated for food allergy because of redness to the cheeks that is observed after eating.
What I haven’t heard about is a syndrome called ‘Frey’s Syndrome’. 
In the January edition of [...]

February 1, 2010  Tags:   Posted in: Food Allergies, Interesting Stories  3 Comments

Almost Famous!

Is Your Kid Truly Allergic? Tests Add to Food Confusion 
Last week I was interviewed by a reporter from the Wall Street Journal. The topic was food allergy. The reporter came across this website and thought that I be a good resource for her article. We had a delightful talk that went on for 45 minutes. [...]

January 26, 2010  Tags: , , ,   Posted in: Allergy Testing, Food Allergies, Phadia Allergy Tests  No Comments

Peanut Allergy vs. Peanut Sensitization

Allergy or tolerance in children sensitized to peanut: Prevalence and differentiation using component-resolved diagnostics.
N. Nicolaou, M Poorafshar, C Murray,  A Simpson, H Winell, G Kerry, A Woodcock, S Ahlstadt, and A Custovic.  Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology(JACI) 2010;125:191-7.
This article appeared in the most recent JACI. Almost as soon as I read the article, I [...]

January 24, 2010  Tags: , ,   Posted in: Food Allergies, Phadia Allergy Tests  No Comments

Food Allergy and Eosinophilic Esophagitis

There is an excellent, easy to read review on this topic in the January, 2010 edition of the Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine (volume 77, number 1, pages 51-59)written by Sandra Hong and Nicola Vogel. As a review article the authors bring together a number of concepts from an evaluation of 58 perr-reviewed publications on [...]

January 13, 2010  Tags:   Posted in: Food Allergies, Gastrointestinal Allergy  No Comments

Food Allergy among Children in the United States – Article Review

Food Allergy among Children in the United States
Authors: Amy Branum and Susan Lukacs
Reference: Pediatrics Volume 124 (6) December 2009
This title caught my eye. The impression in clinical practice is that more and more children have food allergy. This article looks at the prevalence of food allergy in children. I wanted to get this review posted [...]

December 1, 2009  Tags: , ,   Posted in: Allergies, Allergy Testing, Food Allergies  No Comments

Increase in Food Allergy in Children

Today’s Indianapolis Star (Sunday November 29, 2009) had an article “Researchers can’t explain rise in kids’ food allergies”. According to a study that will appear in the December issue of Pediatrics The number of children with food allergy is up to 18%. The information came from surveys of parents and health care organizations. This pre-publication [...]

November 29, 2009  Tags: , ,   Posted in: Allergies, Food Allergies, Interesting Stories  3 Comments

Egg Allergy and Influenza Vaccinations

Dr. Vitalpur and I have had many calls about the influenza vaccination (both the usual annual vaccine and the new H1N1 vaccine) and children with egg allergy. We follow a number of children who are allergic to egg. Their reactions to egg include those who; are allergy test positive only, have hives with skin contact [...]

October 8, 2009   Posted in: Allergies, Egg Allergy, Food Allergies, Immunizations  6 Comments

Food Allergy Testing, Egg Sensitivity, and Flu Shots

The title here takes in a significant amount of material. Its intent is to get your attention to an old theme and to hopefully help with considerations of dealing with the need for a flu immunization (aka flu shot) in the face of egg sensitization (having a positive allergy test to egg).
A young African-American girl [...]

September 24, 2009   Posted in: Allergy Testing, Egg Allergy, Food Allergies, Immunizations, Phadia Allergy Tests  4 Comments

Food Allergy Challenges

The Allergy Clinic at Riley Hospital for Children sees a significant number of children with food allergy. Our experience is mostly making the diagnosis. There is another part of food allergy that we do at Riley that is very exciting. The natural history is that some food allergies can be outgrown. We are doing food [...]

May 13, 2009   Posted in: Food Allergies  2 Comments