Archive for the ‘Food Allergies’ Category
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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Critically Reviewing the Literature on Food Allergy
Diagnosing and Managing Common Food Allergies: A systematic review. This week I am presenting at a seminar at the Riley Child Care Conference. The seminar was the idea of Dr. Sandeep Gupta (pediatric gastroenterology). The title is “Puzzling, Perplexing, Problematic Allergies in Children”. The third lecturer is Dr. Jeff Travers (dermatology). I have the task [...]
May 16, 2010
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Tags: Food Allergy, Food Allergy Epidemiology, Food Allergy Testing · Posted in: Allergy Testing, Food Allergies
Peanut Allergy Misdiagnosed in 2 out of 3 Cases ?
 Attacking Peanut Allergy  Peanut Allergy Misdiagnosed in 2 out of 3 Cases  This title from Medical News Today April 13, 2010 caught my attention. It has always been a mystery as to why peanut allergy has increased dramatically over the years. This publication may shed some light on that mystery.   There are [...]
April 25, 2010
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Tags: Food Allergy, Food Allergy Support Group, Food Allergy Testing, peanut, Peanut Allergy · Posted in: Allergies, Allergy Testing, Food Allergies
Indy Food Allergy Support Groups
This past Tuesday (March 16, 2010)Â I was asked to speak to the Southside Indianapolis Food Allergy Support Group. Last spring I talked about food challenges and what Dr. Vitalpur and I are doing at Riley hospital regarding food challenges. This time I gave an update from the annual meeting of the American Academy of Allergy, [...]
March 18, 2010
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Tags: Food Allergy, Food Allergy Support Group · Posted in: Food Allergies, Meeting Updates
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
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Tags: Article Review, Food Allergy, Gastrointestinal Allergy, Unusual reactions to foods · Posted in: Food Allergies, Gastrointestinal Allergy, Interesting Stories
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 [...]
February 1, 2010
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Tags: Food Allergy · Posted in: Food Allergies, Interesting Stories
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 [...]
January 26, 2010
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Tags: Food Allergies, Food Allergy, Food Allergy Epidemiology, Food Allergy Testing · Posted in: Allergy Testing, Food Allergies, Phadia Allergy Tests
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 [...]
January 24, 2010
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Tags: Food Allergies, Food Allergy Epidemiology, Peanut Allergy · Posted in: Food Allergies, Phadia Allergy Tests
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
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Tags: Food Allergy Epidemiology · Posted in: Food Allergies, Gastrointestinal Allergy
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 [...]
December 1, 2009
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Tags: Article Review, Food Allergies, Food Allergy Epidemiology · Posted in: Allergies, Allergy Testing, Food Allergies
