{"title":"Food protein-induced enterocolitis syndrome (FPIES): Beyond the guidelines","authors":"Sohini Shah, Rebecca Grohman, A. Nowak‐Wegrzyn","doi":"10.2500/jfa.2023.5.230014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2500/jfa.2023.5.230014","url":null,"abstract":"Background: Food protein‐induced enterocolitis syndrome (FPIES) is a non‐immunoglobulin E (IgE) cell mediated food allergy that can cause severe symptoms and is considered an allergic emergency. Objective: To describe FPIES epidemiology and\u0000 appraise the approach to diagnosis and management. Methods: A review of the relevant articles published in the peer-reviewed journals since the publication of the First International FPIES Consensus Guidelines in 2017. Results: FPIES is estimated to\u0000 affect 0.51‐0.9% of children and 0.22% of adults in the United States. It typically presents with protracted, projectile vomiting, which occurs within 1‐4 hours of ingesting culprit foods, sometimes followed by diarrhea within 24 hours of ingestion. In ∼15‐20% of severe\u0000 cases, patients go into hypovolemic or distributive shock. In chronic FPIES, infants may have failure to thrive and weight loss. The most common triggers include cow’s milk, oat, rice, and avocado, with egg and peanut being more frequently reported. Examples of other common fruit and\u0000 vegetable triggers include banana, apple, and sweet potato. FPIES can be classified into acute, chronic, adult-onset, or atypical subtypes. FPIES is associated with comorbid atopic conditions of IgE-mediated food allergy, atopic dermatitis, asthma, allergic rhinitis, and eosinophilic esophagitis.\u0000 The natural history of infantile FPIES is generally favorable, with the exception of fish FPIES. Seafood FPIES in adults has low rates of resolution over 3‐5 years. Correctly identifying FPIES can be challenging because there are no specific biomarkers for diagnosis and the constellation\u0000 of symptoms may mimic those of infectious enteritis or sepsis. Management relies on dietary food avoidance, periodic re-evaluations for tolerance with oral food challenges, and management of acute reactions with rehydration and antiemetic ondansetron. Although the pathophysiology of FPIES\u0000 remains poorly understood, underlying mechanisms such as cytokine release, leukocyte activation, and impaired gastrointestinal mucosal barrier function may act as cornerstones for further research. Conclusion: Prevention, laboratory diagnostic testing, and strategies to\u0000 accelerate tolerance development are urgent unmet needs in FPIES.","PeriodicalId":73751,"journal":{"name":"Journal of food allergy","volume":"372 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139014465","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Food challenges: Patient selection, predictors, component testing, and decision points","authors":"Julie Wang","doi":"10.2500/jfa.2023.5.230010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2500/jfa.2023.5.230010","url":null,"abstract":"Background: Oral food challenges are commonly used when there is uncertainty based on a clinical history as to whether a food allergy exists and to assess whether a food allergy has been outgrown. Methods: A narrative review was performed, synthesizing\u0000 available evidence in the literature. Results: Because food challenges are generally multi-hour procedures that carry the risk for potentially severe allergic reactions, careful patient selection is important. Allergy tests can provide additional supportive information\u0000 to guide decision-making but do not have sufficient diagnostic accuracy to replace food challenges in most circumstances. Conclusion: Clinical history provides important clues with regard to the likelihood that a reaction may occur and should be combined with patient and\u0000 family preferences and allergy test results when making decisions about pursuing food challenges.","PeriodicalId":73751,"journal":{"name":"Journal of food allergy","volume":"353 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139021938","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Eirene M Fithian, Christopher Warren, Andrea A Pappalardo, Neil Thivalapill, Jennifer R Long, Lucy A Bilaver, Amal Assa'ad, Mahboobeh Mahdavinia, Hemant Sharma, Ruchi Gupta
{"title":"Racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic disparities in COVID-19 and influenza vaccination in pediatric food allergy.","authors":"Eirene M Fithian, Christopher Warren, Andrea A Pappalardo, Neil Thivalapill, Jennifer R Long, Lucy A Bilaver, Amal Assa'ad, Mahboobeh Mahdavinia, Hemant Sharma, Ruchi Gupta","doi":"10.2500/jfa.2022.4.220034","DOIUrl":"10.2500/jfa.2022.4.220034","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Current coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and influenza vaccination-related knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors remain poorly understood among U.S. children with food allergy, and, particularly, those from non-Hispanic Black, Latinx, and lower-income backgrounds who bear a disproportionate burden by allergic disease. These data are especially relevant due to historical vaccine hesitancy in children with food allergy and an initial contraindication for those with severe allergic reactions to be vaccinated against COVID-19.</p><p><strong>Objective: </strong>We sought to characterize COVID-19 and influenza vaccination-related knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors in a racially, ethnically, and socioeconomically diverse longitudinal cohort of caregiver-child dyads with immunoglobulin E-mediated food allergy.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>We leveraged the National Institutes of Health supported FORWARD cohort, which consists of non-Hispanic White, non-Hispanic Black, and Hispanic/Latinx children diagnosed with food allergy to assess COVID-19 testing, vaccination, and influenza vaccine concern and utilization through administering a one-time institutional review board approved survey.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Non-Hispanic Black participants were less likely than non-Hispanic White participants to be vaccinated (odds ratio [OR] 0.25 [95% confidence interval {CI}, 0.08-0.75]) or tested (OR 0.33 [95% CI, 0.13-0.85]) for COVID-19 and have the intention to vaccinate their children for influenza (OR 0.42 [95% CI, 0.18-0.98]). More than one-third of the participants reported that they believed that their child was at greater risk of complications from COVID-19 vaccination due to a food allergy. There were racial and/or ethnic disparities in the belief that COVID vaccines contain allergenic ingredients; more Hispanic/Latinx (37%) and Black (37%) than White (22%) participants reported this belief (p = 0.02).</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>The present findings of disparities in vaccination-related knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors across racial and/or ethnic, and household income strata suggested that initial reports of COVID-19 vaccination hesitancy within the population with food allergy may be further exacerbated by well-documented racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic differences in vaccine hesitancy, potentially leading to a greater infectious disease burden in these vulnerable populations. This highlights a need for targeted education and outreach among members of these communities who are living with food allergy.</p>","PeriodicalId":73751,"journal":{"name":"Journal of food allergy","volume":"4 3","pages":"172-180"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10373577/pdf/nihms-1911469.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10278823","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Marielle C Young, Ian R Roy, Ariel S Frey-Vogel, Kristina Dzara, Michael Pistiner
{"title":"Needs assessment for an infant and toddler food allergy curriculum for pediatric residents.","authors":"Marielle C Young, Ian R Roy, Ariel S Frey-Vogel, Kristina Dzara, Michael Pistiner","doi":"10.2500/jfa.2022.4.220004","DOIUrl":"10.2500/jfa.2022.4.220004","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>The prevalence of pediatric food allergies is increasing. Although pediatric residents are frontline providers for children with food allergies, little is known about pediatric residents' educational experiences and comfort with infant and toddler food allergy.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>An anonymous online needs assessment survey was created and distributed to 64 residents in one residency program. The survey explored residents' knowledge sources, experience, and comfort in diagnosing, treating, and counseling patients with regard to food allergy and anaphylaxis.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Fifty-one pediatric residents (79.7%) completed the survey. Pediatric residents who had formal engagement with allergy-trained clinicians had 8.27 times the odds (odds ratio 8.27 [95% confidence interval, 1.16-59.01]; <i>p</i> = 0.035) of feeling comfortable in treating infant and toddler anaphylaxis compared with those who did not feel comfortable.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>These findings suggest that a standardized pediatric residency curriculum, in partnership with pediatric allergists, may present enhanced educational opportunities for pediatric residents.</p>","PeriodicalId":73751,"journal":{"name":"Journal of food allergy","volume":"4 1","pages":"10-13"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11250633/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141636457","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jacob J Pozin, Ashley L Devonshire, Kevin Tom, Melanie Makhija, Anne Marie Singh
{"title":"Legume and sesame oral food challenge outcomes.","authors":"Jacob J Pozin, Ashley L Devonshire, Kevin Tom, Melanie Makhija, Anne Marie Singh","doi":"10.2500/jfa.2021.3.210009","DOIUrl":"10.2500/jfa.2021.3.210009","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Legume and sesame are emerging food allergens. The utility of specific immunoglobulin E (sIgE) testing to predict clinical reactivity to these allergens is not well described.</p><p><strong>Objective: </strong>To describe clinical outcomes and sIgE in sesame and legume oral food challenges (OFC).</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>We performed a retrospective review of 74 legume and sesame OFCs between 2007 and 2017 at the Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago. Clinical data, OFC outcome, and sIgE to legume and sesame were collected. Receiver operating characteristic curves and logistic regression models that predicted OFC outcome were generated.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Twenty-eight patients (median age, 6.15 years) passed legume OFC (84.9%), and 25 patients (median age, 5.91 years) passed sesame OFC (61.0%). The median sIgE to legume was 1.41 kUA/L and, to sesame, was 2.34 kUA/L. In patients with failed legume OFC, 60.0% had cutaneous symptoms, 20.0% had gastrointestinal symptoms, and 20.0% had anaphylaxis. Of these reactions, 80.0% were controlled with antihistamine alone and 20.0% required epinephrine. In patients for whom sesame OFC failed, 50.0% had cutaneous symptoms, 12.5% had gastrointestinal symptoms, and 37.50% had anaphylaxis. Of these reactions, 6.3% required epinephrine, 31.3% were controlled with diphenhydramine alone, and 63.50% required additional epinephrine or prednisone.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Most OFCs to legumes were passed and reactions to failed legume OFCs were more likely to be nonsevere. Sesame OFC that failed was almost twice as likely compared with legume OFC that failed, and reactions to sesame OFC that failed were often more severe. Sesame sIgE did not correlate with OFC outcome.</p>","PeriodicalId":73751,"journal":{"name":"Journal of food allergy","volume":"3 2","pages":"42-49"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11250182/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141636028","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Justin Babbel, Courtney Ramos, Hannah Wangberg, Kate Luskin, Ronald Simon
{"title":"Adverse reactions to food additives.","authors":"Justin Babbel, Courtney Ramos, Hannah Wangberg, Kate Luskin, Ronald Simon","doi":"10.2500/jfa.2021.3.210004","DOIUrl":"10.2500/jfa.2021.3.210004","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Food additives are naturally occurring or synthetic substances that are added to food to modify the color, taste, texture, stability, or other characteristics of foods. These additives are ubiquitous in the food that we consume on a daily basis and, therefore, have been the subject of much scrutiny about possible reactions. Despite these concerns, the overall prevalence of food additive reactions is 1-2%, with a minority of the wide variety of symptoms attributed to food-additive exposure being reproduced by double-blind placebo controlled challenges. Reactions can be broadly classified into either immunoglobulin E (IgE)- and non-IgE-mediated reactions, with natural additives accounting for most IgE-mediated reactions, and both natural and synthetic additives being implicated in the non-IgE-mediated reactions. Reactions that include asthma exacerbations, urticaria and/or angioedema, or anaphylaxis with ingestion of a food additive are most deserving of further allergy evaluation. In this article, we discussed the different types of adverse reactions that have been described to various food additives. We also reviewed the specifics of how to evaluate and diagnose a food additive allergy in a clinic setting.</p>","PeriodicalId":73751,"journal":{"name":"Journal of food allergy","volume":"3 1","pages":"8-23"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11250194/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141636027","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Samantha Knox, Jaclyn Bjelac, Wei Liu, Brian Schroer
{"title":"Use of emergency backup resources during open food challenges at a pediatric tertiary care center.","authors":"Samantha Knox, Jaclyn Bjelac, Wei Liu, Brian Schroer","doi":"10.2500/jfa.2020.2.200015","DOIUrl":"10.2500/jfa.2020.2.200015","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Oral food challenge (OFC) remains the criterion standard diagnostic procedure for food allergy. Although the need for OFCs has increased, some allergists may not perform them due to the risk for adverse events and lack of backup resources.</p><p><strong>Objective: </strong>The study aimed to elucidate the frequency of reactions in which emergency backup resources were used and reported on various challenge outcomes at a tertiary pediatric hospital.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>We retrospectively reviewed children and young adults (ages, 0-21 years) who completed OFCs in 2013-2018 at Cleveland Clinic Children's Hospital. Demographics, atopic history, culprit food, reaction history, and diagnostic testing as well as challenge details and outcomes were collected and analyzed.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>A total of 1269 challenges of 812 unique patients ages 5 months to 21 years were reviewed. More than half of challenges were performed in patients with a history of a reaction and positive testing result before challenge. The foods with the highest proportion of allergic outcomes were egg, sesame, and baked egg. More than one-third of challenge reactions were grade 3 or 4 anaphylaxis when using a food-induced anaphylaxis grading scale. Epinephrine was used for reactions in 7.2% of all challenges. Reactions in five challenges (0.4%) prompted utilization of backup emergency resources.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>On review of nearly 1300 OFCs, emergency backup resources were rarely used, despite a large proportion of moderate-to-severe reactions. The need for backup resources during food challenges is rare, which suggests that most typical allergy offices are able to treat OFC reactions.</p>","PeriodicalId":73751,"journal":{"name":"Journal of food allergy","volume":"2 2","pages":"152-160"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11250617/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141636026","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Parent perspectives on food allergy management and safety during the COVID-19 pandemic","authors":"A. Russell, Olga Kagan, M. Huber","doi":"10.2500/jfa.2020.1.200033","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2500/jfa.2020.1.200033","url":null,"abstract":"Background: U.S. national emergency was declared in mid-March 2020 due to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Subsequently, a period of stay-at-home orders, regulatory changes, evolving medical recommendations, and food supply chain disruptions occurred. There\u0000 is little published research on how such changes affected food allergy management for children with this diagnosis. Objective: The study goal was to identify parent perspectives with regard to if and/or how pandemic-related regulatory changes and evolving medical recommendations\u0000 have affected food allergy management. Methods: A survey was distributed to parents of children with food allergy. An electronic Internet forms survey link was available for completion during July 2020. Data were presented as descriptive statistics, cleaned, and coded into\u0000 a spreadsheet before analysis . Frequencies and percentage were calculated to describe participants’ characteristics and responses. Results: Of 377 responses, 359 met inclusion criteria. Concerns about COVID-19 exposure were expressed in 65.7% about accessing an emergency\u0000 department and 73.6% had school reentry concerns; 66% had not discussed recommended anaphylaxis management algorithm changes with a provider; 85.8% had not discussed the temporary U.S. Food and Drug Administration food labeling policy with a provider. Most (62%) reported shortages of preferred\u0000 safe food brands. 62% spent more time cooking safe foods from scratch. With regard to the recommendation by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for classroom dining, 57.7% planned to request modifications. With regard to the CDC’s recommendation to use inhalers\u0000 versus nebulizers, 37.7% had not discussed the topic with a provider. Ninety-two written comments were analyzed and grouped into seven themes. Conclusion: New pandemic-related regulations, food supply chain disruptions, and evolving medical recommendations resulted in intensified\u0000 burdens for respondents, including the increased time needed to complete food allergy management and school reentry concerns. Study results can inform clinical team members (e.g., physicians, nurses, dieticians) of effects that pandemic-related changes may have on this patient population,\u0000 with subsequent consideration of patient-specific screening, education, and shared decision-making with regard to risk mitigation needs.","PeriodicalId":73751,"journal":{"name":"Journal of food allergy","volume":"20 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80993568","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Parent perspectives on food allergy management and safety during the COVID-19 pandemic.","authors":"Anne F Russell, Olga S Kagan, Mary M Huber","doi":"10.2500/jfa.2020.2.200033","DOIUrl":"10.2500/jfa.2020.2.200033","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>U.S. national emergency was declared in mid-March 2020 due to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Subsequently, a period of stay-at-home orders, regulatory changes, evolving medical recommendations, and food supply chain disruptions occurred. There is little published research on how such changes affected food allergy management for children with this diagnosis.</p><p><strong>Objective: </strong>The study goal was to identify parent perspectives with regard to if and/or how pandemic-related regulatory changes and evolving medical recommendations have affected food allergy management.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>A survey was distributed to parents of children with food allergy. An electronic Internet forms survey link was available for completion during July 2020. Data were presented as descriptive statistics, cleaned, and coded into a spreadsheet before analysis. Frequencies and percentage were calculated to describe participants' characteristics and responses.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Of 377 responses, 359 met inclusion criteria. Concerns about COVID-19 exposure were expressed in 65.7% about accessing an emergency department and 73.6% had school reentry concerns; 66% had not discussed recommended anaphylaxis management algorithm changes with a provider; 85.8% had not discussed the temporary U.S. Food and Drug Administration food labeling policy with a provider. Most (62%) reported shortages of preferred safe food brands. 62% spent more time cooking safe foods from scratch. With regard to the recommendation by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for classroom dining, 57.7% planned to request modifications. With regard to the CDC's recommendation to use inhalers versus nebulizers, 37.7% had not discussed the topic with a provider. Ninety-two written comments were analyzed and grouped into seven themes.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>New pandemic-related regulations, food supply chain disruptions, and evolving medical recommendations resulted in intensified burdens for respondents, including the increased time needed to complete food allergy management and school reentry concerns. Study results can inform clinical team members (e.g., physicians, nurses, dieticians) of effects that pandemic-related changes may have on this patient population, with subsequent consideration of patient-specific screening, education, and shared decision-making with regard to risk mitigation needs.</p>","PeriodicalId":73751,"journal":{"name":"Journal of food allergy","volume":"2 2","pages":"142-151"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11250524/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141636025","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}