Features

•Provides practical advice from international experts, considering evidence-based research and current U.S. national food allergy guidelines
•Includes case studies, Clinical Questions, and Clinical Pearls in every chapter
•Discusses emerging diagnostic methods, including component resolved diagnostics
•Presents practical approaches to dietary management
•Examines managing food avoidance and allergies at home as well as outside the home
•Provides step-by-step approaches for diagnostic testing, including skin tests, serum allergy tests, food diaries, elimination diets, and oral food challenges


Summary


Food allergy has increased over the past two decades, with a larger number of patients presenting a myriad of related symptoms and illnesses to physicians and allied health professionals. The growing number of patients poses a challenge to health care providers and confirms the need for developing best clinical practice guidelines. Based on the Expert Panel Report from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Food Allergy: Practical Diagnosis and Management brings to life the developed guidelines with chapters written by international leaders in food allergy clinical care, research, and education, including most of the report’s primary authors.

Offering practical advice, each chapter provides clinically relevant information for everyday diagnosis and management of food allergies and related adverse reactions to foods. Chapters begin with clinical questions to focus readers and contain numerous case studies and "Clinical Pearls" to help formulate best practice approaches to patient care. The text provides information that is relevant for diagnosis, organ or diagnosis-specific concerns, daily management, and topics of importance for patient understanding and management of food allergies.

Chapters cover clinical manifestations, triggers and cross-reactivity, acute reactions, and skin, gastrointestinal, and respiratory conditions associated with food allergy. Authors address diagnostic testing, pharmacologic reactions, allergy prevention, and the natural history of common food allergies. They also consider novel approaches to diagnosis and therapy for immunoglobulin E-mediated food allergy. The final chapter presents practical resources for physicians and patients, including materials for advising newly diagnosed patients and resources for managing food allergies at home, school, camp, restaurants, and while traveling.

Table of Contents


Clinical Manifestations of Food Allergy
Jonathan M. Spergel and Hemant P. Sharma

Prevalence, Triggers, and Cross-Reactivity
Lynette P. Shek and Katrina (Katie) J. Allen

Acute Reactions and Anaphylaxis
Corinne Keet and Julie Wang

Skin Conditions Associated with Food Allergy
Tamara T. Perry, A. Wesley Burks, and Stacie M. Jones

Gastrointestinal Conditions Associated with Food Allergy
Mirna Chehade and Seema Aceves

Respiratory Conditions Associated with Food Allergy
John M. James

Diagnostic Testing
Maeve Kelleher, S. Allan Bock, and Jonathan O’B Hourihane

The Oral Food Challenge Procedure
Sally Noone and Amal H. Assa’ad

Dietary Management
Marion Groetch

Managing Food Avoidance Within the Home and Outside the Home, and Lifestyle Issues
Jennifer S. Kim, Eyal Shemesh, and Michael C. Young

Pharmacologic Reactions to Food and Reactions to Food Additives
Matthew J. Greenhawt, Timothy J. Franxman, and Ronald A. Simon

Prevention
George Du Toit, David M. Fleischer, and Gideon Lack

Natural Course
Jessica H. Savage and Robert A. Wood

Future Diagnostics and Therapies
Anna Nowak-Węgrzyn and Hugh A. Sampson

Practical Resources for Physicians and Patients
Todd A. Mahr and Maria L. Acebal