How to Read a Food Allergy Panel
Food Allergies: Detection and Management
Am Fam Doc. 2008 Jun 15;77(12):1678-1686.
Patient information: Meet related handout on food allergies, written past the authors of this article.
Commodity Sections
- Abstruse
- Pathophysiology
- Foods Most Likely to Produce Food Allergies
- Characteristics of Patients with Nutrient Allergies
- Natural History of Patients with Food Allergies
- Differential Diagnosis for Symptoms Suggestive of Food Allergies
- Clinical Spectrum of IgE-Mediated Food Allergies
- Diagnostic Testing
- Management
- References
Family physicians play a central part in the suspicion and diagnosis of immunoglobulin E-mediated nutrient allergies, but they are likewise critical in redirecting the evaluation for symptoms that patients are falsely attributing to allergies. Although any nutrient is a potential allergen, more 90 percent of astute systemic reactions to food in children are from eggs, milk, soy, wheat, or peanuts, and in adults are from crustaceans, tree nuts, peanuts, or fish. The oral allergy syndrome is more mutual than anaphylactic reactions to food, but symptoms are transient and express to the mouth and throat. Skin-prick and radioallergosorbent tests for item foods take about an 85 percent sensitivity and 30 to 60 percent specificity. Intradermal testing has a higher fake-positive rate and greater gamble of agin reactions; therefore, information technology should not exist used for initial evaluations. The double-bullheaded, placebo-controlled food challenge remains the most specific test for confirming diagnosis. Treatment is through recognition and avoidance of the responsible nutrient. Patients with anaphylactic reactions need emergent epinephrine and education in cocky-administration in the event of inadvertent exposure. Antihistamines tin exist used for more minor reactions.
Food allergies affect iv to 5 percent of children and two to 3 percent of adults, yet false attribution of symptoms to nutrient allergy remains a problem.1,ii Population-based studies of children and adolescents take shown that only ten pct of those who believe they have food allergy can be proven to have one.1 Disorders associated with food allergy, such as eosinophilic esophagitis, are being increasingly recognized, and some other previously known disorders, such as gastroesophageal reflux illness in infants, are being increasingly attributed to food allergies.3 Food allergy is the leading cause of nondrug-related anaphylaxis.
SORT: KEY RECOMMENDATIONS FOR Practise
| Clinical recommendation | Evidence rating | References | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Immunoglobulin East testing with skin-prick or radioallergosorbent test is advisable if clinical suspicion for food allergy is loftier. | C | 17 | Recommendation from guideline based on nonrandomized studies |
| Patients (or caregivers of patients) with known or suspected anaphylactic nutrient allergies should carry injectable epinephrine and exist instructed on how to use it. | C | 17 | Recommendation from guideline based on consensus of the Joint Job Force on Practise Parameters |
| Although there is no evidence to support the utilise of hydrolyzed formula over breastfeeding, in that location is some evidence that hydrolyzed formulas reduce infant and childhood allergies compared with cow'south milk-based formulas. | B | 39,xl | Based on meta-analyses of randomized and nonrandomized studies; even so, there was significant inconsistency of results across the trials |
Pathophysiology
- Abstruse
- Pathophysiology
- Foods Most Probable to Produce Food Allergies
- Characteristics of Patients with Food Allergies
- Natural History of Patients with Food Allergies
- Differential Diagnosis for Symptoms Suggestive of Food Allergies
- Clinical Spectrum of IgE-Mediated Nutrient Allergies
- Diagnostic Testing
- Management
- References
Despite high acidity in the stomach and enzyme activity, 2 percent of ingested nutrient is absorbed through the intestine in a form that is immunologically intact enough to produce a nutrient allergy.4 Yet, most patients take oral tolerance (an active nonresponse to antigens delivered orally) and do not ever develop a reaction. Oral tolerance may occur because of the way abdominal epithelial cells present the antigen to mucosal lymphatic cells. Low doses of intestinal food antigens preferentially increment regulatory T cell production within the intestinal lymphoid tissue. These regulatory T cells secrete suppressive cytokines that decrease inflammatory reactions. Infants and young children have a more young mucosal gut barrier and immune response; therefore, a larger percent of ingested food is absorbed intact. This is believed to account for the increased prevalence of food allergies in this population.4
Foods Most Probable to Produce Nutrient Allergies
- Abstract
- Pathophysiology
- Foods Most Likely to Produce Nutrient Allergies
- Characteristics of Patients with Food Allergies
- Natural History of Patients with Food Allergies
- Differential Diagnosis for Symptoms Suggestive of Food Allergies
- Clinical Spectrum of IgE-Mediated Nutrient Allergies
- Diagnostic Testing
- Management
- References
Although whatsoever food is a potential allergen, the foods in Table i account for more than than 90 pct of all systemic nutrient allergies.2,5 Fruits and vegetables can also produce allergies, but they tend to be milder reactions. Seeds (e.m., sesame, sunflower) take been known to crusade severe reactions.6,7 Although much less common, allergy to other foods is possible, with manifestations in almost whatsoever organ system. Allergy to food additives is as well possible, just rare. Food additive allergy should be suspected when the patient reports allergic symptoms after ingestion of a variety of foods with no shared proteins, and when no reaction occurs with a homemade version of the same foods.eight Genetic manipulation of food tin too potentially produce proteins that will cantankerous-react with the immunoglobulin E (IgE) of a patient with a food allergy.nine
Table 1
Nearly Common Food Allergies in Children and Adults
| Children | Adults |
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Most patients are allergic to between one and three foods. This does not include the cross-reactions to like proteins that tin exist common in some food groups. For example, virtually all patients who are allergic to cow's milk will also be allergic to sheep'south or goat's milk. Most patients who are allergic to shrimp will likewise react to other crustaceans. Some patients with a latex allergy will react to assistant, kiwi, or avocado.
Characteristics of Patients with Food Allergies
- Abstract
- Pathophysiology
- Foods Most Likely to Produce Food Allergies
- Characteristics of Patients with Food Allergies
- Natural History of Patients with Food Allergies
- Differential Diagnosis for Symptoms Suggestive of Food Allergies
- Clinical Spectrum of IgE-Mediated Food Allergies
- Diagnostic Testing
- Management
- References
Most patients with food allergies take an atopic disorder; however, just 10 percent of patients with atopic disorders have food allergies.ten A family unit history of food allergy or other atopic disorders increases the chance of developing a nutrient allergy. Genetic predisposition, including specific haplotypes, has been identified for some common food allergies. The oral allergy syndrome is confined to patients who have allergic rhinitis or asthma. Tabular array 2 lists historical factors that increase the risk of food allergies.11
Tabular array 2
Historical Factors that Increase the Risk of Food Allergy
| History of reaction within minutes to hours of ingestion |
| Inadvertent ingestions of the same food have produced similar reactions on repeated exposure |
| Lack of other possible explanations for the reaction besides food allergy |
| Suspected nutrient is known to exist a college take a chance for nutrient allergies |
| Symptom onset in baby or young child |
| Personal or family history of atopic dermatitis, asthma, allergic rhinitis, or nutrient allergies |
Natural History of Patients with Food Allergies
- Abstract
- Pathophysiology
- Foods Most Probable to Produce Food Allergies
- Characteristics of Patients with Food Allergies
- Natural History of Patients with Food Allergies
- Differential Diagnosis for Symptoms Suggestive of Nutrient Allergies
- Clinical Spectrum of IgE-Mediated Food Allergies
- Diagnostic Testing
- Direction
- References
The majority of children volition outgrow the about common nutrient allergies; those who exercise non will have persistent allergies to the same or different foods. Approximately lxx pct of children with egg allergy and 85 percent with milk allergy will outgrow it by 5 years of age.12,13 Nevertheless, almost xl to threescore per centum of these children will develop asthma and 30 to 55 percentage will develop allergic rhinitis.12,13 Hazard of persistent allergy to peanut is much greater, with only 20 percent of children ever developing tolerance.fourteen Adolescents with persistent allergies and adults with new onset are particularly prone to fatal food allergies. Increased risk in adolescents may be explained by their tendency to eat foods that could contain allergens and to not comport epinephrine with them (depending on their social situation).15 Adults with food allergies unremarkably remain allergic.
Differential Diagnosis for Symptoms Suggestive of Nutrient Allergies
- Abstract
- Pathophysiology
- Foods Nigh Likely to Produce Food Allergies
- Characteristics of Patients with Food Allergies
- Natural History of Patients with Food Allergies
- Differential Diagnosis for Symptoms Suggestive of Food Allergies
- Clinical Spectrum of IgE-Mediated Food Allergies
- Diagnostic Testing
- Direction
- References
Suspicion of food allergy begins with reports of symptoms that appear to be temporally related to food ingestion. Persons with IgE-mediated nutrient allergy develop symptoms within minutes to several hours later on exposure; reactions rarely occur later. Even reported reactions within this time are non specific for food allergies. Symptoms from the clinical spectrum reported beneath, particularly if experienced repeatedly past the patient in response to a food that normally produces allergies, are more likely to truly correspond an allergy. Food-associated symptoms that are not IgE mediated can be further divided into illnesses that are allowed mediated, merely not completely IgE based (e.g., the principally prison cell-mediated responses in celiac disease), or the many nonimmune adverse reactions to food.
The nonimmune-mediated reactions include infectious causes, enzymatic food reactions (lactose intolerance), and pharmacologic food reactions (vasoactive amines in scombroid poisoning). Also, symptoms can increase with eating (irrespective of the food ingested) in irritable bowel disease, carcinoid syndrome, and gustatory rhinitis. Distinguishing features of some of these disorders are presented in Table iii.16,17
Tabular array three
Nutrient and Eating-Related Disorders that May Mimic Food Allergies
| Disorder | Populations afflicted/presumed etiology/food sources | Symptoms | Diagnosis/treatment |
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| Carcinoid syndrome | Carcinoid tumors occur throughout adulthood and can develop in tardily childhood |
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| Celiac disease | More mutual in white persons |
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| Symptoms tin start at any historic period | |||
| Sometimes associated with dermatitis herpetiformis | |||
| Symptoms develop after gluten ingestion (wheat, barley, rye, and, more rarely, oats) | |||
| Giardiasis | Persons who have ingested h2o or food contaminated with Giardia cysts |
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| Fecal-oral spread also occurs in kid daycare settings | |||
| Gustatory rhinitis | Believed to be nonallergic and mediated through vagus nerve |
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| Irritable bowel disease | Chronic symptoms usually start in young adulthood (earlier twoscore years of age) |
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| Lactase deficiency* | Primary deficiency much more than likely to develop in adulthood in nonwhite persons, but lesser degrees of lactase deficiency can be found in 25 percent of white persons |
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| Scombroid poisoning | Bacterial production of excess amines, peculiarly histamine on food |
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| Most cases from tuna, mahi-mahi, and swiss cheese | |||
| Sulfite ingestion† | Sulfites have been banned by the U.S. Nutrient and Drug Administration for preserving raw fruits and vegetables, but they are still found in a variety of cooked and processed foods |
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Food diaries can exist useful when the patient has symptoms that could potentially exist secondary to food allergy, merely at that place is no recognized provoking food. The patient records all foods eaten that day in a diary. The diary is typically connected for weeks.
Family physicians can assistance make up one's mind how likely a patient's symptoms are to be a result of a nutrient allergy and if further testing is indicated. They tin redirect the evaluation if symptoms are being falsely attributed to allergies. They tin besides provide data on food avoidance techniques and can primarily direct the avoidance strategies when the reported reaction is minor (e.g., oral allergy syndrome). Family physicians are often contacted first to assess and treat anaphylactic reactions from food. Allergist referral should be considered when the patient has a history of anaphylactic reactions to food, when there is need for peel-prick or food challenge testing, and when symptoms have not improved with primary care interventions.
Clinical Spectrum of IgE-Mediated Food Allergies
- Abstract
- Pathophysiology
- Foods Most Likely to Produce Food Allergies
- Characteristics of Patients with Food Allergies
- Natural History of Patients with Nutrient Allergies
- Differential Diagnosis for Symptoms Suggestive of Food Allergies
- Clinical Spectrum of IgE-Mediated Food Allergies
- Diagnostic Testing
- Management
- References
ANAPHYLAXIS
Anaphylaxis symptoms occur in multiple organ systems and can include pharynx swelling, wheezing, rhinorrhea, urticaria, hypotension, and abdominal cramping (Tabular array 4).18 Risk factors for death from anaphylaxis are adolescent or young developed patient; underlying asthma; allergies to crustaceans, tree nuts, peanuts, or fish; and a delay in or lack of administration of epinephrine.
Table four
Symptoms of Anaphylaxis
| Abdominal pain, cramping, diarrhea, vomiting |
| Angioedema, flushing, generalized urticaria, pruritus |
| Chest tightness |
| Coughing, dyspnea, wheezing |
| Feeling of impending doom |
| Hypotension, stupor |
| Metallic taste in oral fissure |
| Rhinorrhea |
| Throat swelling |
| Uterine contractions |
Food-DEPENDENT EXERCISE-INDUCED ANAPHYLAXIS
Food-dependent exercise-induced anaphylaxis is a rare disorder in which patients develop anaphylaxis only if they ingest foods to which they are allergic so exercise. They are completely asymptomatic if these ii elements are not combined. Patients must avoid the provoking foods for every bit many as six hours earlier exercise. Wheat is the most common food associated with nutrient-dependent practise-induced anaphylaxis.nineteen,20
Astute URTICARIA
Food allergies account for 30 per centum of acute urticaria cases.21 Patients become symptomatic minutes to hours after ingestion of the provoking food. Because acute urticaria can be one manifestation of anaphylaxis, care to identify symptoms in other organ systems that would raise the diagnosis to this more urgent level is warranted. Chronic urticaria is much less ordinarily acquired by food allergies (three to iv percent of cases).22
ATOPIC DERMATITIS
Nigh 35 percent of children with atopic dermatitis accept a nutrient allergy, based on double-blind, placebo-controlled food challenges.23 Skin manifestations better when the suspected foods are removed from the diet; eggs, milk, and peanuts are about unremarkably implicated. In chest-fed infants, elimination of suspected foods in the mother's diet has produced clinical improvement.
ORAL ALLERGY SYNDROME
The oral allergy syndrome is the about mutual food allergy; it is clinically recognized in up to ten per centum of patients who take allergic rhinitis or asthma from grass, weed, or tree pollen.24 All the same, information technology is believed to have a significantly higher prevalence in patients with birch pollen allergy.25
The manifestations of the oral allergy syndrome are brief in elapsing, are limited to the mouth and throat, and are sometimes so balmy that the patient may not seek evaluation. Proteins similar to the aeroantigens to which the patient is sensitive are present in apples, carrots, and cherries (birch pollen); kiwi and tomato plant (grass pollen); and melons (ragweed pollen). When these foods come into contact with the oropharynx, a local reaction occurs. Table 5 lists common food and aeroantigen cross-reactions.18 Patients may notice lip and tongue swelling and pruritus that can besides involve the throat and palate. Progression to systemic manifestations is rare. Denaturing the proteins by cooking, or removing the nutrient from the oropharynx by swallowing or spitting out stops the reaction.
Table 5
Potential Cantankerous-Reactions Between Airborne Allergens and Foods
| Airborne allergen | Food |
|---|---|
| Birch pollen | Carrots |
| Celery | |
| Fresh fruit (east.g., apples, cherries, nectarines, peaches, pears) | |
| Hazelnuts | |
| Parsnips | |
| Potatoes | |
| Grass pollen | Kiwi |
| Tomatoes | |
| Ragweed pollen | Bananas |
| Melons (e.yard., cantaloupe, honeydew, watermelon) |
ALLERGIC EOSINOPHILIC GA STROINTESTINAL DISORDERS
Allergic eosinophilic gastrointestinal disorders are peculiarly prevalent in children and are thought to exist acquired by an IgE- and cell-mediated response to specific foods. Patients with these disorders have backlog eosinophils in the mucosal and serosal layers of the portion of the gastrointestinal tract that produces their symptoms.26 Only well-nigh 50 percent of children with eosinophilic gastrointestinal disorders are positive for specific food allergies on IgE testing,18 but almost all children amend when switched from milk or soy to an extensively hydrolyzed formula (processed so that peptides are less than 3,000 Da) or to an elemental diet (no proteins; only amino acids) (Table half dozen26,27).
Table half-dozen
Subclassification of Eosinophilic Gastrointestinal Disorders
| Disorder | Population | Signs and symptoms |
|---|---|---|
| Allergic eosinophilic esophagitis | Most usually diagnosed in neonates and infants, but tin touch older children and adults | Emesis, dysphagia, or epigastric hurting that continues despite antireflux therapy |
| Normal esophageal pH | ||
| Allergic eosinophilic gastritis | Children and adolescents | Failure to thrive, diarrhea, emesis, epigastric pain, occult claret in stool, gastric outlet obstruction |
| Allergic proctocolitis | Normally in young infants; more than 50 percentage are exclusively breastfed | Can occasionally produce blood-streaked stools |
| Sometimes occurs in older children |
Diagnostic Testing
- Abstract
- Pathophysiology
- Foods Most Probable to Produce Food Allergies
- Characteristics of Patients with Food Allergies
- Natural History of Patients with Nutrient Allergies
- Differential Diagnosis for Symptoms Suggestive of Food Allergies
- Clinical Spectrum of IgE-Mediated Food Allergies
- Diagnostic Testing
- Direction
- References
All IgE testing for food allergies must be interpreted in the context of the patient's clinical reactions. Many patients will take positive IgE tests to foods despite never having a clinical reaction. As well, IgE will remain positive if they one time had nutrient allergies, but have since developed tolerance. The well-nigh commonly used method to assess for food-specific IgE is skin-prick testing. In skin-prick testing, a portion of a commercial excerpt of the nutrient in question is pushed into the epidermis with a needle or probe, and the surface area is observed for a wheal and flare reaction after 15 to 20 minutes. Some allergists believe that fresh extracts of fruits and vegetables have superior sensitivity and specificity and use them in peel-prick tests. Although generalized reactions rarely occur (nigh 0.05 pct overall charge per unit), at that place have been no reported deaths subsequently peel-prick testing.28
Recent reports have suggested like sensitivity and specificity for the radioallergosorbent test (RAST) compared with skin-prick testing; even so, many allergists believe that RAST sensitivity is lower, particularly in older children and adults. RAST involves the detection of preformed antibodies in the patient's serum and thus carries no potential for allergic reactions. In this article, RAST refers to any in vitro, food-specific IgE antibody test. IgE testing with pare-prick test or RAST is advisable if clinical suspicion of nutrient allergy is high.17 Figure i outlines the evaluation for suspected food allergy.18
Evaluation of Suspected Food Allergy
Effigy 1.
Algorithm for the evaluation of suspected food allergy.
Information from reference 18.
Intradermal testing has poorer specificity for food allergy and greater risk of adverse reaction than a skin-prick exam or RAST and therefore, is not appropriate for initial evaluations.17 Some allergists even so debate for its apply in subsequent evaluations when clinical suspicion is loftier and skin-prick test or RAST are negative. Patch testing has shown promise, particularly in children with atopic dermatitis and in the evaluation of delayed reactions, but it requires highly experienced evaluators to properly assess the reactions. Table vii 29–34 presents methods for IgE testing and Table 817,30 lists types of food challenges and their uses. Patients describing anaphylactic reactions to a nutrient that is ordinarily associated with anaphylaxis do not require food challenge if their IgE testing is confirmatory. Food challenges are appropriate when a food is clinically suspected of inducing a food allergy, simply IgE testing is negative.
Table vii
Immunoglobulin E Determinations for Suspected Food Allergy
| Procedures | Observed response | Comments |
|---|---|---|
| Skin-prick examination | ||
| Portion of commercial excerpt is pushed into area of epidermis with needle or probe; adjacent expanse has normal saline as control | Observe for wheal and flare reaction developing after 15 to twenty minutes | 85 percent sensitivity and 30 to 60 percent specificity for nutrient allergies based on double-blind, placebo-controlled food challenges29 |
| Patients must avoid antihistamines for 48 hours before testing because they can edgeless reaction | ||
| RAST | ||
| Although a serum sample tin can be assessed for a predetermined food allergy panel, individual nutrient testing based on history is preferred | Levels of immunoglobulin E confronting predetermined nutrient antigens are measured | Similar skin-prick testing, RAST has loftier sensitivity, but only about 50 percent specificity30,31; however, it has a 95 percent specificity in children with atopic dermatitis who are allergic to eggs, milk, peanuts, or fish32 |
| Preferentially done initially in young children and infants, in adults with meaning comorbid weather condition, and in patients with such extensive pare interest that skin-prick testing is prohibited or who cannot discontinue antihistamines for 48 hours earlier skin-prick testing | ||
| Patch testing | ||
| Commercially prepared nutrient extracts practical to peel and occluded with patch | Remove patch and observe for erythema and induration at site at 48 hours | Studied the most in children with atopic dermatitis where positive patch tests have shown to correlate with food challenge-confirmed milk allergies better than skin-prick testing33 |
| Overall clinical usefulness unclear | Symptomatic reactions can occur earlier, warranting patch removal afterwards physician notification | Positive predictive value of RAST or pare-prick test combined with patch test is so high that food challenges are often unnecessary34 |
Table 8
Food Challenge Testing and Elimination Nutrition for Suspected Allergies
| Procedures | Uses | Comments |
|---|---|---|
| Double-blind, placebo-controlled food challenge | Older children and adults with atypical reactions or reported reactions to uncommonly involved foods |
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| Single-blind nutrient challenge | Older children and adults with atypical reactions or reported reactions to uncommonly involved foods, but where there is college pretest suspicion of true food allergy |
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| Open food challenge | Can be used to examination multiple foods with follow-up blinded food challenges for positive reactions |
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| Elimination diet | Tin be used at any age |
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| Multiple foods can be eliminated if there is clinical suspicion for more than one food | ||
| Usually followed past food claiming if patients improve on elimination |
Management
- Abstract
- Pathophysiology
- Foods Most Likely to Produce Food Allergies
- Characteristics of Patients with Food Allergies
- Natural History of Patients with Nutrient Allergies
- Differential Diagnosis for Symptoms Suggestive of Food Allergies
- Clinical Spectrum of IgE-Mediated Food Allergies
- Diagnostic Testing
- Direction
- References
AVOIDING OFFENDING FOODS
Patients with nutrient allergies, and parents of children with food allergies must habitually read labels of whatever new food to verify the absenteeism of known allergens. When others are cooking, such as at a restaurant or some other person's home, ingredients and cooking methods must be known. Desserts, sauces, and fried foods tend to be higher risk. Cooking with butter or a milk-containing margarine could trigger a reaction in persons with a milk allergy.
ANAPHYLACTIC FOOD ALLERGY
Epinephrine should be urgently administered if anaphylaxis is suspected. Intramuscular diphenhydramine (Benadryl), systemic corticosteroids, and histamine Htwo blockers can be added if the patient's symptoms have not completely resolved with epinephrine alone. See Table 918,35 for doses and follow-up. Supplemental oxygen should be administered if the patient has broncho-spasm or laryngeal edema.35
Table 9
Handling and Follow-Upward for Food Allergy Anaphylaxis
| Medication | Adult dose | Children's dose | Follow-up/comments | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Epinephrine* | 0.3 to 0.5 mg IM of a 1:1,000 solution of aqueous epinephrine | 0.01 mg per kg IM up to a maximal dose of 0.iii to 0.5 mg | Almost 20 per centum of patients will accept recurrence within several hours; therefore, a four-hr monitoring menstruation is recommended | ||
| Diphenhydramine (Benadryl) | l mg IM or orally | ane mg per kg IM or orally up to a maximal dose of 50 mg | Dose can be repeated every four to half dozen hours | ||
| 12.5 mg per 5 mL liquid preparation available for children | |||||
| Ranitidine (Zantac) | l mg IM or IV or 150 mg orally twice daily | ii to 4 mg per kg Four every eight hours up to maximal dose of 50 mg or 2 to iv mg per kg orally daily (divided into two doses) upward to maximal dose of 300 mg per day | Dose can exist repeated every 12 hours | ||
| Systemic corticosteroids† | Dexamethasone half-dozen to x mg IV, IM, or orally | Methylprednisolone (Solu-Medrol) one to 2 mg per kg IV | Commonly non repeated | ||
Patients who have had even a single anaphylactic reaction to food should have two age-appropriate epinephrine pens with initial teaching in technique and follow-up visits for technique assessment.17 The second pen is recommended because the beginning dose tin clothing off after 20 minutes, possibly before the patient has reached a medical facility. These patients should also article of clothing a medical identification bracelet that provides information most their allergy. Informing other caretakers and companions of young adults and children most the condition and appropriate use of epinephrine is recommended. Most patients who develop a second phase of anaphylaxis should be admitted to the hospital for ascertainment.35
Oral or parenteral antihistamines can exist administered for more minor reactions, such as isolated pruritus or urticaria. Children can take liquid diphenhydramine.35
PREVENTION OF FOOD ALLERGIES
The American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology recommends exclusive breastfeeding for the first six months in infants with a family history of two master relatives with an atopic disease, and continued breast-feeding through at least the showtime year, with solid food not beingness introduced until afterward six months of historic period.36 Because approximately ane one-half of all women are secretors (what they ingest will appear in their breast milk), the chest-feeding mother should avert eggs, milk, tree nuts, peanuts, and seafood. In the child's diet, basics, shellfish, and fish are delayed until 3 to four years of historic period. Although there is some bear witness of a decrease in nutrient allergies and atopic dermatitis for the showtime two years of life with this approach, some contempo studies have shown no persistent decrease in atopic parameters past the first few years.37,38 Using a soy formula instead of a cow's milk-based formula does not appear to reduce allergies.39 However, there is some evidence that infants on hydrolyzed formulas have fewer allergies, including food allergies, compared with regular moo-cow's milk formulas.40 In that location is no testify to support that extensively hydrolyzed formulas reduce allergy development in infants relative to breastfeeding,40 but hydrolyzed formula feeding is an choice for high-take a chance infants whose mothers cannot comply with avoiding likely allergen-containing foods during breastfeeding.
Immunotherapy has not been proven to be effective in the prevention of food allergies.41
PREVENTION OF INADVERTENT EXPOSURES FOR SENSITIZED PATIENTS
Food labels must state if the nutrient contains any of the most mutual ingredients known to produce systemic reactions. The Nutrient Allergy and Anaphylaxis network (http://www.foodallergy.org) has data for patients and families on dwelling house food preparation, restaurant dining, responses to allergic reactions, and adjustments for specific social situations.42
NOVEL TREATMENTS AND POTENTIAL NEW DIRECTIONS
The commercial food abstracts used in IgE testing contain other nonallergic components, resulting in a test that is difficult to standardize. Use of recombinant antigens that are selected based on their association with nutrient allergy instead of commercial food extracts may let for improved specificity.43,44
Specific oral tolerance induction, which is when patients ingest daily small quantities of the offending food and and so increase the amount until reaching what would be in the diet, has shown some hope, merely only in small nonplacebo-controlled trials.45
Injection of monoclonal IgG that binds to IgE and masks regions responsible for receptor binding to mast cells and basophiles partially protects patients with peanut allergies and shows hope for utilise in other food allergies.46
A specific Chinese herbal tea formula has been shown to be highly effective in preventing peanut allergies in animals. Trials in humans will be conducted soon.47
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