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Clinical pediatrics · Oct 2015
The Prevalence of Food Allergies in Children Referred to a Multidisciplinary Feeding Program.
- Karla Au Yeung, Tessa Taylor, Ann Scheimann, Ryan Carvalho, Elsie Reinhardt, Peter Girolami, and Robert Wood.
- Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA kauyeun1@jhmi.edu.
- Clin Pediatr (Phila). 2015 Oct 1; 54 (11): 1081-6.
ObjectiveTo assess the prevalence of food allergy in children presenting to a multidisciplinary feeding program.MethodsA 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 reports with eosinophilic infiltrate. Three categories of possible food allergy were stratified based on increasing evidence of allergy.ResultsPossible food allergy was found for 18% (n = 54), likely food allergy for 6% (n = 18), and very likely food allergy for 16% (n = 47) for a total of 40% classified in a food allergy group. Having been breastfed correlated with likelihood of food allergy but tube-feeding dependence did not.ConclusionThis study revealed a higher proportion of children in a feeding program with food allergy compared to the general population, but larger prospective studies are needed to confirm the association.© The Author(s) 2015.
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