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
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
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
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 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
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
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Tags: Article Review, Food Allergies, Food Allergy Epidemiology · Posted in: Allergies, Food Allergies, Interesting Stories
