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
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
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
