PROACTIVE STRATEGIES FOR CHILDREN WITH FOOD REFUSAL Sara E. Langlois April 10, 2009 Feeding disorders occur when a child rejects significant amounts of food or drink. Food refusals are maintained by factors which may be behavioral based, due to structural impairments, or a combination of the two. One of the first steps to increasing a child's diet is having them try novel or previously rejected...

INTRODUCTION Current treatment of food allergies consists of the elimination of the offending food from the diet. Desensitization or tolerance induction can be an alternative for those children who have not achieved tolerance spontaneously. We propose a cow's milk desensitization protocol carried out in an outpatient setting over a 9-10 week period. PATIENTS AND METHOD Eighteen children older...

Both increases (sensitization) and decreases (desensitization) in oral irritation have been reported in response to repeated short-term stimulation by compounds such as capsaicin, zingerone and menthol. It is unclear why one irritant would show sensitization and another desensitization, and this is further complicated by substantial inter-individual variation in response patterns. These variati...

Several types of reactions to drugs and chemicals may precipitate or perpetuate asthmatic relapse. This review focuses on reactions to aspirin and sulfites. Approximately 40 percent of patients with rhinosinusitis, nasal polyps, and asthma and 5 to 10 percent of all asthmatic patients are sensitive to aspirin and aspirin-like nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs at some time in their course. A ...

Adverse food reaction in which no immunological mechanism is demonstrated should be termed nonallergic food hypersensitivity or food intolerance. We present the case of a 12-year-old girl with a clinical history of abdominal pain, nausea, and general malaise after tomato intake which completely remitted with antihistamines. The patient underwent a complete allergy evaluation: skin prick tests, ...

Methods We report a case of drug rash induced by levothyroxine and currently oral desensitization. A 31 year-old woman had been diagnosed as Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis. She was having levothyroxine for 9 years when she begun to present bilateral eyelids maculopapular rash. Blood exams and physical examination were normal except for the eyelids ́ rash. As she stopped using levothyroxine, the rash ha...

BACKGROUND Current management of egg allergy relies on egg elimination from the diet. It does not protect patients from reactions after accidental ingestion of the food and it has a negative influence on quality of life. To solve these problems, some desensitization protocols have been described that are safe and effective, but only one study of a rush regimen for egg with a small patient sampl...

Background The oral tolerance induction to egg (OTI) is a promising treatment modality for egg allergy. Several small pilot studies have been published using different protocols and only one positive double-blind placebo-controlled food challenge have proved efficacy and relatively good tolerance. In all of them raw egg has been used. Recent studies suggest that a diet with heated egg in patien...