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
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
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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