Ask the allergist is an everyday characteristic in our newsletters the place Canadian allergists reply your questions! Please be aware, the allergists featured on this collection reply questions on common subjects, please discuss to your physician when you’ve got questions on your personal well being or the well being of your youngster.
This month, we requested Dr. Julia Upton a query concerning the severity of meals allergy.
Can meals allergy testing determine how extreme your meals allergy is?
Presently we’re restricted in how nicely we are able to predict severity. There’s some proof {that a} response to a selected meals tends to be comparable after the same publicity. Even so, an individual’s response to at least one meals could also be comparable over time, however this is not going to predict their response to a really totally different quantity of that meals or one other meals to which they’re allergic.
A response can be modified by whether or not an individual is sick, or their bronchial asthma is uncontrolled, or they’d the meals on an empty or full abdomen and lots of different issues we name “co-factors.” Lab assessments have been inconsistent of their potential to foretell the severity or the quantity that can trigger a response. Severity prediction is an space of nice curiosity to assist in giving extra tailor-made recommendation to folks with meals allergy.
Within the meantime, it’s necessary to be prepared for a possible response by being aware of the indicators and signs of anaphylaxis, carrying an epinephrine auto-injector, and utilizing it if an anaphylactic response is suspected.
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Dr. Julia Upton is on employees on the Hospital for Sick Kids within the Immunology and Allergy Division; and an Affiliate Professor within the Division of Paediatrics on the College of Toronto. She is on the Board of Administrators of the Canadian Society of Allergy and Medical Immunology, and is a member of our Healthcare Advisory Board.
Please be aware: Dr. Upton is answering as a person allergist and her solutions don’t represent an official place of her affiliated organizations. Her responses are for informational functions solely and don’t represent particular medical recommendation, suggestions, analysis, or therapy. Please discuss to your physician about any considerations or questions you will have concerning your personal well being or the well being of your youngster.
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