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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...
View ArticleCritically 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...
View ArticleChild 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...
View ArticleA 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...
View ArticleWhat to do about all those positive food allergy test results- The New Food...
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...
View ArticleUsing 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,...
View ArticleOral 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...
View ArticleSkin Testing for Aeroallergens
Position Paper: Practical guide to skin prick tests in allergy to aeroallergens I was alerted to this article by my partner Dr. Vitalpur. It comes from Allergy (European Journal of Allergy and Clinical...
View ArticleThings Patients and Physicians Should Question
It would seem that there is significant amount of interesting material in the news. This is my 4rth post in two days. I subscribe to ‘MedPage Today’- an online source for hot topics. This hot topic...
View ArticleChoose Wisely Campaign
How would you like to undergo a blood test or have your child undergo a blood test only to discover that the test is of no clinical value in the day to day diagnosis and management of a medical...
View ArticleAllergy Fast Facts
The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) puts out a newsletter each month (AAP News). This month there was a few inserts; one dealing with the 2012-2013 Influenza Vaccine Guidelines and the other was...
View ArticleALCAT- Antigen Leukocyte Cellular Antibody Test
There are a significant number of tests available that are used in the diagnosis of allergy. There are numerous posts on this site about allergy testing. Some allergy tests are considered gold...
View ArticleChoosing Wisely- Tests and Procedures used in Allergy
With great regularity, our section (Pediatric Pulmonary, Allergy, and Sleep Medicine at Riley Childrens Hospital) offers a CME program. The sponsor (the sancting of the CME) is the Indiana University...
View ArticleGuidelines for the pediatrician’s role in managing food allergies in schools
As a member of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) I receive the AAP News. In this publication there is a section that focuses on a Subspecialty. The June 2014 edition of the News highlighted...
View ArticleSkin Prick Tests and Blood Tests for Allergy in Young Children
‘Disagreement between skin prick tests and specific IgE in young children’ by A.M Schoos, B.l.k. Chawes, N. Folsgaard, N. Samandari, K. Bonnelykke, and H. Bisgaard. This article appears as a...
View ArticleFood Allergy Action Month
May is ‘Food Allergy Action’ month and the week of May 8-14 is Food Allergy Awareness Week. Of note, I have been asked to present at the 51st Riley Pediatric Conference, May 10th at the first plenary...
View ArticleAllergy App?
There is an interesting article referenced on the front page of the Indianapolis Star Monday October 31, 2016 . The article actually is on page 3A and continues on 14A. It has an eye-catching title,...
View ArticleOral 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...
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