Food Hypersensitivity According to the Food Allergy & Anaphylaxis Network (FAAN) , at least 11.4 million Americans have true food allergies (also known as f...
Urticaria or Hives Urticaria with or without angioedema is frequently encountered in primary care medicine. If the urticaria is of short duration, it is usual...
Food Allergic Patient Management Current management of food-allergic patients consists of the dietary avoidance of causal foods and optimizing the prompt treatment of sympt...
Food Allergic Patient Evaluation - Food Challenges The goal of performing an oral food challenge is to document the presence or lack of clinical reactivity to a food. Oral food challenges ar...
Food Allergic Patient Evaluation - Elimination Diets Elimination diets are used in both the diagnosis and treatment of patients suffering from adverse reactions to foods, regardless of the mec...
Food Allergic Patient Evaluation - Laboratory Testing While prick skin testing to foods determines the presence of food allergen- specific IgE bound to specific receptors on the surface of mast...
Food Allergic Patient Evaluation - Atopy Patch Testing Although prick skin testing and the measurement of serum food-specific IgE antibodies are indispensable in the evaluation of patients with ...
Food Allergic Patient Evaluation - Prick Skin Testing Skin testing to foods is essentially a bioassay that involves introducing miniscule amounts of food allergens into the patient’s epidermis ...
Diagnosis of Food Allergy - Physical examination The focus of the physical examination varies, depending upon the patient’s presenting symptoms, their acuity, chronicity, and the mechanism...
Diagnosis of Food Allergy Accurately diagnosing patients complaining of adverse reactions to foods requires a certain amount of detective work that begins by obtaini...
Allergen Sources Information and Advice There are several databases of allergen sequences on the internet. The Allergen Nomenclature Subcommittee of the International Union of Imm...
Animal Derived Food Allergens Seafood allergy is a serious food allergy, especially in coastal regions and fish processing communities where seafood is a common constitu...
Future Trends of Food Allergies Research in food allergies has been rapidly expanding in recent years with the recognition that the prevalence and severity of food allergi...
Food Allergies - Allergenic Food Sources Many ingredients are derived from sources that are known to be allergenic. Very common examples would include peanut and soybean oils, soyb...
Food Allergies - Avoidance Diets Typically, the prevention of IgE-mediated food allergies primarily involves avoiding the offending foods. Certain drugs, such as epinephrin...
Food Allergy Mechanisms Two types of allergic or hypersensitivity reactions occur as basic immunological mechanisms involved in food allergies. IgE-mediated reacti...