Discussion Food allergy is highly suspected in children in Mexico, specially allergy due to milk. The food involved in food allergy changes with age. the clinical presentation changes with food, although the skin was the most affected organ. Food allergy has an important impact in quality of life of patients. Even the suspicious is high the use of diagnosis resources must be improved. Authors’ ...

The development of food allergy requires an immunological reaction directed to a food antigen. This reaction may involve immunoglobulin E (IgE) or T lymphocytes (T cells) or some components of both IgE and T cells (mixed IgE/non-IgE reaction). Food allergy can manifest as cutaneous, respiratory, systemic (anaphylaxis) or gastrointestinal (GI) symptoms. The GI manifestations are listed in Table ...

OBJECTIVE To provide insight into food allergy knowledge and perceptions among pediatricians and family physicians in the United States. METHODS A national sample of pediatricians and family physicians was recruited between April and July 2008 to complete the validated, Web-based Chicago Food Allergy Research Survey for Primary Care Physicians. Findings were analyzed to provide composite/item...

The pediatrician is faced with evaluating a panoply of skin rashes, a subset of which may be induced by food allergy. Acute urticaria is a common manifestation of an allergic skin response to food, but food is rarely a cause of chronic urticaria. Approximately one third of infants/children with moderate to severe atopic dermatitis have food allergy. Although diagnosis of acute urticaria provoke...

Food allergy is common disease that affects 11-26 million people in Europe. The incidence is estimated to be greater in children (5-8%) than the in adults (1-3%). Currently, the mechanisms of food allergy are not well characterized. There are a lot of open questions, for example: "Why do some individuals develop allergy to food? Why is some food more allergenic than other? Why do some children ...

PURPOSE OF REVIEW Animal models published within the past 18 months on asthma, food allergy and anaphylaxis, all conditions of rising public health concern, were reviewed. RECENT FINDINGS While domestic animals spontaneously develop asthma, food allergy and anaphylaxis, in animal models, divergent sensitization and challenge routes, dosages, intervals and antigens are used to induce asthmatic...

the best recognized intestinal manifestation of food allergy is food allergic (food-sensitive) enteropathy. the feature of enteropathy may include lymphocyte and plasma cell infiltration, epithelial abnormality, or crypt hyperplastic villous atrophy, and impairing absorption, enterophaty continues while the food remains in the diet, remitting on an exclusion diet, and usually recurring on food ...

Methods This is an observational study that enrolled children from 24 to 59 months in municipal daycare centers from Uberlândia. A self-administered questionnaire that was used to evaluate the prevalence of food allergy related by parents; subsequently, children with a suspecting food allergy were invited to a clinical and laboratory evaluation, in order to know the real prevalence of food alle...

Because progressively earlier presentations of food allergy implicate early environmental influences, there is intense interest in the prenatal factors inducing tolerogenic immune responses. Studies eliminating food allergens during pregnancy have failed to show reduction in the prevalence of long-term IgE-mediated food allergy in children, and recent data provides direct evidence supporting ea...

OBJECTIVES The goals were to estimate the prevalence of food allergy and to describe trends in food allergy prevalence and health care use among US children. METHODS A cross-sectional survey of data on food allergy among children <18 years of age, as reported in the 1997-2007 National Health Interview Survey, 2005-2006 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 1993-2006 National Hospi...