Diagnosis, Management, and Investigational Therapies for Food Allergies

Diagnosis, management, and investigational therapies for food allergies.

Food allergies have increased in prevalence over the past 20 years, now becoming an important public health concern. Although there are no therapies currently available for routine clinical care, recent reports have indicated that immunotherapies targeting the mucosal immune system may be effective. Oral immunotherapy is conducted by administering small, increasing amounts of food allergen; it ...

Diagnosis and management of food allergies.

Food allergies: clinical manifestations, diagnosis, and management.

i m m r m ( w m f k T i i h a I t a i f I f t r h n R eactions to foods are extremely common and the etiology of these reactions determines their correct management. Adverse food reactions re not all allergic. The management of food adverse eactions ranges from complete avoidance of minute mounts of food to ingesting milk after lactase suplementation. It is, therefore, important to accurately l...

Food allergy: Diagnosis, management & emerging therapies

IgE-mediated food allergy is an important health concern with increasing prevalence worldwide. Manifestations of IgE-mediated food allergy include urticaria, angioedema, pruritus, difficulty in breathing, laryngeal oedema, vomiting, diarrhoea and/or hypotension within minutes to two hours of the offending food's ingestion. Diagnosis requires both a careful history and supportive testing with la...

Food allergies: detection and management.

Family physicians play a central role in the suspicion and diagnosis of immunoglobulin E-mediated food allergies, but they are also critical in redirecting the evaluation for symptoms that patients are falsely attributing to allergies. Although any food is a potential allergen, more than 90 percent of acute systemic reactions to food in children are from eggs, milk, soy, wheat, or peanuts, and ...