Tag: Food
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Are We Beating a Dead Horse?
Ok, another study about the dangers of food allergy (yesterday in USA Today). You would think the occurrence of food allergy to KNOWN allergens (peanut & milk) would decrease given all the attention given to accidental ingestion. Evidently, this is not the case. Explanations? Maybe we’re afraid of giving epinephrine. In my personal experience, giving epinephrine is…
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A Cultural and Historical Examination of the Cough Drop
What’s medicine and what’s just candy! Read on to find out. My own personal thought is many patients with vocal cord dysfunction (VCD) respond to vocal hydration which can occur while sucking on a cough drop/candy. Maybe we’ve been treating VCD all along with HALLs! Stranger things have happened. A Cultural and Historical Examination of…
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Celiac disease & gluten-free diets–now I can have pizza!
Finally, the voice of consumers is being heard! That is gluten-sensitive patients. http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/food/story/2012-05-04/gluten-free-food-pizza/54793108/1
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Here’s a book on food allergies!
My transcriptionists are not only good at what they do, but when they hear me talk as much as I do, it’s almost family. I am reading a book called, Don’t Kill the Birthday Girl by Sandra Beasley, and I thought of you. It’s a memoir about the author’s life with food allergies, what it…
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The Teen Who Can’t Swallow–What To Do?
The Evaluation of a Patient With Suspected EoE Our series is on eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE) and I’ve covered how you present with this condition and a little bit about what the heck this condition really is! The website reference is http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/754206?src=mp&spon=38 Patients with suspected EoE should be evaluated by both an allergist and a gastroenterologist. A careful history should include…
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The Teen Who Can’t Swallow–What is it?
What is the most likely diagnosis? How did you do compared to your colleagues? Your Colleagues Responded: GERD 28% Eosinophilic esophagitis Correct Answer 67% Celiac disease 4% Irritable bowel syndrome 1% Eosinophilic Esophagitis: Definition, Epidemiology, and Pathophysiology Clinical Definition–summary only. Eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE) is chronic, inflammatory esophageal clinico-pathological condition.…
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News You Can Use on Food Allergy
So how much can we hear about food allergy? As unfortunate as it is to have a severe food allergy, what bothers patients most is lack of reliable information about their condition and the lack of concern about a potentially fatal reaction. Just look on Facebook to find hundreds of stories about the tragedy of food allergy or…
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The year in review (2011)
Advances in allergic skin disease, anaphylaxis, and hypersensitivity reactions to foods, drugs, and insects in 2011. J Allergy Clin Immunol 2012;129:76-85 So what’s new in allergy to foods, drugs, and insects? I promise, I won’t bore you with basic science facts useful only for allergy boards, but here’s some facts for you to digest with the…
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The Holidays are Here–How about Allergy?
HoHoHo! It’s Christmas time. Holiday safety is especially important for patients with allergies. Regardless of whether you have asthma or food allergy, here is a great handout from the AAAAI about “Handling the Holidays!” Feel free to use this handout in your practice! Allergy to Christmas….really? How about those Thanksgiving dinners? Any risk for allergy? Enjoy and…
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