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March 2, 2022 by Alan Khadavi

Dr. Alan Khadavi’s Food Allergy Podcast Talk

Dr. Alan Khadavi was recently featured on the food allergy podcast with Lisa Horne.

Topics covered were:

  • Signs and symptoms of food allergy
  • Signs and symptoms of new additional food allergies
  • Different ways food allergy presents (hives and some “atypical” presentations vs other less obvious presentations)
  • What method to go through pediatrician and primary care physicians to investigate underlying health issues
  • The top 9 allergens, multiple food allergies and rare food allergies
  • Increase in food allergy diagnosis
  • Vegetable and fruit allergy vs. Oral Allergy Syndrome
  • How food allergies are diagnosed with focus on individual history
  • Difference between IgG and IgE blood tests
  • Skin prick tests and comparison to blood tests and individual history
  • When are food challenge looked at as option
  • No such thing as a mild allergy, past reactions cannot dictate severity of future allergic reactions
  • When to administer epinephrine?
  • Epi first and epi fast
  • When requesting prescription, how many for home and elsewhere to request, expiration date and generics
  • Expired epinephrine

You can listen to the podcast here. The Food Allergy Talk Podcast

Filed Under: Blog, Food allergy

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