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What are Indications for Allergen-specific Immunotherapy?
Discussion
Allergen-specific immunotherapy (AIT) is a disease modifying treatment for allergic disease. Sometimes referred to as desensitization, the premise is to expose the patient to small but regular amounts of a specific antigen thereby building tolerance within the patient to the allergen. AIT is often underused because of safety concerns and lack of appropriately trained health care providers and facilities to safely carry out AIT treatment. There are 4 main AIT treatments options currently:
SCIT – subcutaneous immunotherapy
Allergen is injected into the subcutaneous skin
“Shots are effective in treati...
Source: PediatricEducation.org - March 5, 2018 Category: Pediatrics Authors: pediatriceducationmin Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: news
Spirometry in schoolchildren for field studies: does testing on different days change the result of the exam?
Conclusions: There was no change in the results of spirometry performed by healthy schoolchildren on three different days.
Source: Revista Paulista de Pediatria - March 1, 2018 Category: Pediatrics Source Type: research
Community study found that cutaneous allergies in childhood were associated with conduct problems in girls
Acta Paediatrica, EarlyView.
Source: Acta Paediatrica - February 19, 2018 Category: Pediatrics Source Type: research
Wheat oral immunotherapy was moderately successful but was associated with very frequent adverse events in children aged 6 ‐18 years
ConclusionThe majority (57%) of children with wheat allergies could use wheat in their daily diet 16 months after the initiation of oral immunotherapy, but 94/100 had adverse reactions and 60 were moderate or severe. Specific immunoglobulin E to omega‐5‐gliadin may provide a biomarker for how much wheat can be tolerated and the intensity of the reactions to immunotherapy.This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.
Source: Acta Paediatrica - January 18, 2018 Category: Pediatrics Authors: Petri Kulmala, Anna S Pelkonen, Mikael Kuitunen, Marita Paassilta, Sami Remes, R üdiger Schultz, Teija Dunder, Sami Turunen, Mika J. Mäkelä Tags: Regular Article Source Type: research
Susceptibility to allergy in adoptive children: a cross-sectional study at “Bambino Gesù Children’s Hospital”
ConclusionsChildren without medical records or with a past medical history suggestive of atopy should perform a thorough allergy evaluation at the time of adoption. Our study offers also a glimpse at the vaccination status and immune-allergic profiles of recent migrant children in Italy.
Source: Italian Journal of Pediatrics - January 4, 2018 Category: Pediatrics Source Type: research
Clinical features and treatment of pediatric patients with drug-induced anaphylaxis: a study based on pharmacovigilance data
Conclusion: This study demonstrates that antibiotics were the most common cause of pediatric drug-induced anaphylaxis. Children may present with different anaphylactic signs/symptoms based on age groups. Epinephrine is under-utilized and provider education on the proper management of drug-induced anaphylaxis is warranted.What is Known:•The most common causes of anaphylaxis in children are allergies to foods. Drugs are the second most common cause of pediatric anaphylaxis.• IM epinephrine is the recommended initial treatment of anaphylaxis.What is New:•Drug-induced anaphylaxis in pediatric patients has age-related cli...
Source: European Journal of Pediatrics - January 1, 2018 Category: Pediatrics Source Type: research
Practice Guidelines for Peanut Allergies
This article reviews the latest recommendations and clinical practice guidelines for peanut allergies among the pediatric population. Recommendations in this paper were compiled using information collected from a variety of publications of accredited professional organizations. Peanut allergies are the body's response to what it sees to be an unwanted substance in the body. This article focuses on the causes, signs and symptoms, prevention, diagnosis, and management of peanut allergies.
Source: Journal of Pediatric Health Care - December 9, 2017 Category: Pediatrics Authors: Celeste Sitton, Heide S. Temples Tags: Practice Guidelines Source Type: research
Prepared for the unexpected: How Henri beat C. diff
Henri and his sister, Lucienne
From the time he was born, Henri has been very reactive — to everything.
As a baby, he was allergic to milk and soy, which led to weeping eczema all over his body. His allergies meant frequent ear infections and sinus infections.
As a toddler, he was anemic and underweight. He had two urinary tract infections (UTIs) with fevers.
At age 3, he had a circumcision because of the repeated UTIs.
At age 4, a sinus infection spread to his eye orbit. Every sunscreen on the market gave him (and still gives him) a rash.
At age 5, a bug bite on his ear led to a cartilage infection that required antibio...
Source: Thrive, Children's Hospital Boston - November 29, 2017 Category: Pediatrics Authors: Marie Vedder Tags: Diseases & Conditions Our Patients’ Stories C-diff fecal transplant gastroenterology Lori Zimmerman Sonia Ballal Source Type: news
School Lunches: What can we do?
From the desk of Kim Gubbins, CPNPWe are three months into the new school year and do school lunches have you stressed, bored and lacking? Are your kids already complaining about the same old same old and wishing they could just eat hot lunch pizza everyday? So, let ’s get inspired and figure out fresh new lunch ideas.I know schools are working harder at feeding our children a healthier lunch, but let me honest, most school cafeterias are serving pizza, burgers and fried chicken patties on a daily basis. And with 17%-20% of children in the United States being obese, I feel that packing lunch is a significantly healthier ...
Source: Pediatric Health Associates - November 17, 2017 Category: Pediatrics Tags: Food Allergies Healthy Habits Source Type: news
Anaphylactic shock with methylprednisolone sodium succinate in a child with short bowel syndrome and cow ’s milk allergy
ConclusionChildren who are highly sensitive to milk may have severe allergic reactions also after exposure to CMP through a different administration route than the oral one. Patients who have food allergies need to pay particular attention to the prescription of drugs and their formulation.
Source: Italian Journal of Pediatrics - November 17, 2017 Category: Pediatrics Source Type: research
Non-IgE-mediated gastrointestinal food allergies
Purpose of review: We focus on recent advances regarding the epidemiology, physiopathology, diagnosis and managements of non-IgE-mediated gastrointestinal food allergies (non-IgE-GI-FAs), particularly food protein-induced enterocolitis syndrome (FPIES).
Recent findings: The first international FPIES diagnostic and management guidelines have been recently published. Although FPIES largely remains a diagnosis of exclusion, it may be more prevalent than previously thought. Ondansetron has emerged as a major tool for the treatment of FPIES acute reactions. Recent data also suggest an important role for innate immune cells in ...
Source: Current Opinion in Pediatrics - November 9, 2017 Category: Pediatrics Tags: ALLERGY, IMMUNOLOGY AND RELATED DISORDERS: Edited by David B. Lewis Source Type: research
Dietary intervention for preventing food allergy in children
Purpose of review: In the past decade, food allergy has been increasingly recognized as an important public health issue. The role of maternal and infant diet in the development of food allergy has been a major focus of research throughout this period. Recently, research in this area has moved from observational studies to intervention trials, and the findings from these trials have started to influence infant feeding guidelines. In this article, we review recent studies of dietary interventions for preventing food allergy, summarize current knowledge and discuss future research directions.
Recent findings: The latest res...
Source: Current Opinion in Pediatrics - November 9, 2017 Category: Pediatrics Tags: ALLERGY, IMMUNOLOGY AND RELATED DISORDERS: Edited by David B. Lewis Source Type: research
Why you should only use antibiotics if truly necessary
Let’s be honest: most parents feel better when their sick child is prescribed an antibiotic.
There’s just something so reassuring about having a prescription. It’s hard to feel like all you can do is wait and give your child TLC; it feels better to do something. Even when the doctor says that your child has a virus, and explains that antibiotics treat bacteria, not viruses, it’s common for parents to think: but what if there is even a little chance that there is a bacterial infection along with — or instead of — the virus? It can’t hurt to be safe, right?
But that’s the thing: it can hurt. Here are four way...
Source: Thrive, Children's Hospital Boston - November 9, 2017 Category: Pediatrics Authors: Claire McCarthy Tags: Ask the Expert Health & Wellness antibiotics Claire McCarthy MD Source Type: news
