Oral Food Challenges & Relationship to Allergen-Specific IgE Levels

Diagnosis of food hypersensitivity is a clinical challenge and the only current definitive test is the Double Blind Placebo-Controlled Food Challenges. Although the Double Blind Placebo-Controlled Food Challenges is the current gold standard, it is difficult to perform and is very time-consuming. Hence, researchers are continually evaluating new tests and assessing the value of the available serum tests. (more…)

Atopy Patch Test Accuracy in Diagnosing Hypersensitivity to Cow’s Milk & Hen’s Egg

Over the last 5 years some studies have suggested that the atopy patch test (APT) may be a useful test in atopic dermatitis children who have suspected food hypersensitivity and may even obviate the need for oral challenges. An alternative test to oral allergy challenges with high sensitivity and specificity would be helpful in the diagnosis of food hypersensitivity. (more…)

Food Eating Challenges In Children: Challenge Materials For Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled

The food eating challenges materials used at different centers vary considerably. Some centers use freeze-dried foods, some use concentrated foods masked in other foods or capsules, and some use freshly prepared foods. This study aimed to develop and validate a number of recipes for Double Blind Placebo Control Food Challenges in Children. Common allergenic foods, cow’s milk, egg, soy, peanut, hazelnut and wheat were used where possible in their usual edible form. (more…)

Food Hypersensitivity, Adverse Reactions to Foods & Food Avoidance Among Teenagers

This population-based cross-sectional study, funded by a UK government agency, aimed to establish the rate of sensitization to food allergens, reported food hypersensitivity, food avoidance and objectively assessed food hypersensitivity in 11- and 15-year-olds living on the Isle of Wight, UK. The researchers approached the teenagers via their schools, and a questionnaire completed by the parents and children formed the basis of capturing data to determine the prevalence of current reported food hypersensitivity and rates of food avoidance. This information was available on 775 individuals aged 11 years and 757 aged 15 years. (more…)

EpiPen Training For Kids With Food Allergies

EpiPen Training For Children
Families frequently do not use their self-injectable adrenaline device, even when their kids is experiencing a potentially life-threatening cardiorespiratory allergic reaction to a food allergen. Fatal food allergy anaphylaxis is rare but well recognized and the early use of intramuscular adrenaline may be life-saving. (more…)

Eating Out Tips for People with Food Allergies

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Food allergies represent a hard challenge to maintain weight loss in when you are frequently eating out in restaurant. Last summer I had a severe reaction to peanuts. Then after allergy tests, I discovered that I am allergic to peanuts, nuts, eggs, fish and seafood. Since then doctor told me that I can eat eggs and seafood in moderate proportions, but I m still allergic to peanuts and nuts. This is what a very pleasant experience is normally now turns in a very stressful experience. I was managing to alleviate this tension by adopting a few basic principles like bellow. (more…)

Cow’s Milk Allergy: Immune Response to Protein in Milk

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Cow’s milk is the most frequently encountered food allergen in infancy, and milk allergy is often the earliest indicator that a baby is atopic. Precise figures of the incidence of cow’s milk allergy are hard to find because of the difficulties in obtaining an accurate diagnosis, differences in the populations used for research studies, and disagreement about allergy symptoms (clinical criteria) for the condition. All studies agree, however, that cow’s milk allergy is most prevalent in early childhood with an incidence of 2 to 7.5 percent being reported. (more…)

Food Allergy Ingredients Monitoring and Identification

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At least a million Spanish suffer allergic reactions to food, some of them as common as milk, eggs, fruit or fish. Many of them are children who are constrained in their quality of life and opportunities to participate in activities as usual for other children and enjoy a family meal, eating at school, have a pizza or a bagel or even attend a children’s party. An accidental ingestion of a food to which you are allergic (which happens often due to lack of identification of many food allergy ingredients) can have serious consequences, from allergic urticaria to anaphylaxis symptoms. (more…)

Cow’s Milk Allergy: IgE-Mediated Allergy or Lactose Intolerance?

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Cow’s milk allergy results when antibodies against milk allergens are produced by the immune system.

Milk allergens are proteins; more than 25 distinct milk proteins have been identified in the various fractions of milk. The fractions include casein, whey, serum, and certain additional ingredients. (more…)

Detecting Milk Allergy in the Breast-Fed Baby

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If an exclusively breast-fed baby is exhibiting the type of allergic to milk symptoms previously discussed, the mother will inevitably question whether foods in her diet are responsible. Of course, the first thing she must do is consult her baby’s doctor to rule out any other cause for the symptoms. (more…)

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