- Reflects recent changes in the understanding and treatment of food allergies, from prevalent to less common, including the latest research on mechanisms of allergies and current treatment protocols and guidelines
- Provides essential background information on basic immunology and physiology that is critical to understanding new practice changes
- Contains extensive updates on peanut allergies, the LEAP prevention study, new oral and subcutaneous immunotherapies, future therapies, natural history and prevention, genetics, microbiome, biomarkers, precision approaches, eosinophilic gastroenteropathies, and more
- Discusses the latest understanding of non-IgE-mediated food allergies and a review of unproven diagnostic and therapeutic techniques
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- Shares the knowledge, experience, and global perspective of leading international authors
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Table of Contents
1. Overview of Mucosal Immunity and Development of Oral Tolerance
2. Food Antigens
3. Epidemiology of Food Allergy
4. Clinical Overview of Adverse Reactions to Foods
5. Atopic Dermatitis and Food Allergy
6. Food-Induced Urticaria and Angioedema
7. Pollen-Food Syndrome
8. The Respiratory Tract and Food Allergy
9. Food-Induced Anaphylaxis and Food Associated Exercise-Induced Anaphylaxis
10. Eosinophilic Gastroenteropathies (Eosinophilic Esophagitis, Eosinophilic Gastroenteritis and Eosinophilic Colitis)
11. Food Protein-Induced Enterocolitis, Food Protein-Induced Enteropathy, Proctocolitis, and Infantile Colic
12. Approach to Clinical Diagnosis of Food Allergy: Historic Features
13. In Vivo and In Vitro Diagnostic Methods in the Evaluation of Food Allergy
14. Oral Food Challenge Procedures
15. Management of Food Allergy and Development of an Anaphylaxis Treatment Plan
16. Patient Education and Empowerment
17. Future Therapies for Food Allergies
18. Natural History and Prevention of Food Allergy
19. Diets and Nutrition: Cross-Reacting Food Allergens
20. Diagnostic and Therapeutic Dilemmas: Adverse Reactions to Food Additives, Pharmacologic Food Reactions, Psychologic Considerations Related to Food Ingestion
Authors
A. Wesley Burks Dean, UNC School of Medicine; CEO of UNC Health, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA. Philippe Eigenmann Head of Pediatric Allergy, University Hospitals, Geneva, Switzerland.Professor Philippe Eigenmann, MD, is a leading expert in pediatric allergy and immunology, serving as Head of Pediatric Allergy at the University Hospitals of Geneva, Switzerland. He specializes in food allergy research, focusing on early-life allergy development and improved diagnostic methods.
Professor Eigenmann has published over 200 articles in international scientific journals, contributing to global discussions on pediatric allergy and immunology. He serves as Editor-in-Chief of Pediatric Allergy and Immunology, the leading journal in the field, and is on the Editorial Board of Allergy. His work integrates clinical expertise with translational research, shaping guidelines for allergy diagnosis and management.
Beyond his research, Prof. Eigenmann has held key leadership positions, including Chair of the European Academy of Allergology and Clinical Immunology (EAACI) section on Pediatrics and President of the Swiss Society for Allergy and Immunology. He is also Secretary of the EAACI-Clemens von Pirquet Foundation, promoting research and education in pediatric allergy and immunology.
Wayne Shreffler Chief, Pediatric Allergy and Immunology; Director, Food Allergy Center; Principal Investigator, Center for Immunology and Inflammatory Diseases; Massachusetts General Hospital, USA. Wayne Shreffler, MD, PhD, received his advanced degrees from New York University. Dr. Shreffler completed his Pediatrics training at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and completed his fellowship in Allergy & Immunology at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in 2003, where he was mentored by Drs. Hugh Sampson and Lloyd Mayer. He established himself there as a researcher of immune mechanisms of food allergy and asthma. Dr. Shreffler joined Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School in late 2009 to establish a new translational research and clinical care center focused on food allergy, and he became Division Chief of Pediatric Allergy and Immunology in 2011. Yamini Virkud Associate Professor of Pediatrics; Director of UNC FAI Bioinformatics, UNC School of Medicine, USA.Yamini Virkud, MD, MA, MPH, is a physician scientist specializing in the field of Pediatric Allergy and Immunology. Dr. Virkud earned her medical degree from Washington University and completed her residency in pediatrics at St. Louis Children's Hospital. Dr. Virkud's lab focuses on the phenotyping of different patients with food allergy and understanding the mechanisms of investigational therapies for food allergy.
