Key Points • IgE-mediated anaphylactic reactions to foods occur immediately after ingestion, are acute life-threatening events, and can cause gastrointestinal, pulmonary and cardiovascular symptoms. • Eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE), involving chronic…
Key Points • A number of gastrointestinal food allergic disorders are not typically associated with food-specific IgE antibodies. • These dietary protein-induced cell-mediated disorders usually present in infancy. • There…
Key Points • The rise in food allergy is more rapid than genetic deviation would allow and the current consensus is that environmental factors integrally linked to the ‘modern lifestyle’…
Key Points • Infants most often develop food allergies in the order of exposure (e.g. milk, egg, fish, vegetables, etc.). • The majority of infants and young children with food…
Key Points • A food allergy is an adverse health effect arising from an immune response that occurs reproducibly on exposure to a given food, whereas a food intolerance is…
Key Points • The gastrointestinal associated lymphoid tissue protects the vast surface of the gastrointestinal tract from pathogens while remaining tolerant to antigens from food and commensal microbiota. • Several…
Key Points • Recent statistics show that asthma deaths and hospitalizations are decreasing, but there are still health disparities in that the African American/black population bears a heavier burden of…
Key Points • Failure of symptoms to respond to β-agonists and oral steroids should prompt consideration that the symptoms are not caused by asthma but by another process. • Cough…
Key Points • The care of infants and small children with suspected asthma deserves special consideration because of the potential to modulate the disease process early on and alleviate the…
Key Points • Patients often take less than half of their prescribed controller medication, and surprisingly many stop taking their controller medication altogether after an initial filling at their pharmacy….
