OBJECTIVE To assess the prevalence of food allergy in children presenting to a multidisciplinary feeding program. METHODS A retrospective chart review was conducted from 302 patients. We recorded history of food reaction, family history of any atopic disease, radioallergosorbent testing, prematurity, birth weight, breastfeeding history, Z-scores, age, and gastrointestinal mucosal biopsy repor...

Food allergy is one of the adverse food reactions, which developed by immunological reactions. increasing in prevalence among children and adults. In diagnosis, challenge confirmative with history laboratory tests. Avoidance culprit only preventive method, especially patients severe symptoms. some allergies, crossreactivity allergens should be considered. Latex-fruit/vegetable syndrome pollen a...

Food allergy is often a life-long condition and has been shown to have a significant impact on the quality of life of the patient and parents due to the complexity of managing food allergy to avoid potentially life threatening reactions (Cummings et al., 2010). Parental confidence or selfefficacy in managing food allergy for their child has not been investigated in this population. This study a...

BACKGROUND Members of the general public play a significant role in the well-being of food-allergic children, although little is known about the knowledge, attitudes, and beliefs of food allergy among the public. OBJECTIVE To provide insight into food allergy knowledge and perceptions among the general US population. METHODS A national sample of adults was recruited in February 2008 to comp...

The timing of introduction of solid food on the subsequent development of food allergy is under debate and the role of concurrent breastfeeding is unclear. The aim of the present study was to investigate the role of solid food introduction whilst concurrently breastfeeding on food allergy outcome, with a specific focus on cows' milk allergy. Prospectively collected infant feeding data from a bi...

Background: A clear association between allergy and nasal polyposis (NP) is not determined and the role of food intolerance in patients with NP is not investigated by oral food challenge (OFC). Objective: To investigate the relation of salicylate food intolerance and atopy in patients with NP according to recurrence and aspirin sensitivity. Methods: A cross sectional multicenter study was d...

Background Prevalence of food allergy is considered to be increasing with some even suggesting a food allergy epidemic. We aimed to look at the changes in reported symptoms of food allergy and food allergen sensitisation over a 10 year period in the same geographical area. We compared the prevalence of reported food allergy and food allergen sensitisation in 9-10 year old children between the I...

Our knowledge about the time trend of cow’s milk allergy prevalence is very limited, however there some indirect data favoring the increase of the cow’s milk allergy prevalence. There are several studies reporting that food allergy is increased among children of all ages, both gender and different races/ethnicities. Several national health surveys in USA recently indicated that food allergy pre...

BACKGROUND Pediatric food allergy is a serious health problem in the United States. As the number of affected children increases, more caregivers are charged with the responsibility of managing their child's food allergy. OBJECTIVE To better understand the impact of pediatric food allergy on caregiver quality of life. METHODS As part of a larger project examining the knowledge, attitudes, a...