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