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Food allergies : symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment / Patricia M. Rodgers, editor.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Nutrition and diet research progress series.
- Nutrition and diet research progress
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Food allergy.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (234 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Nova Science Publishers, Inc., c2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Food allergy is an adverse reactions resulting from an inappropriate immunological response to a food antigen. It usually presents as multi-system involvement with gastrointestinal symptoms, cutaneous symptoms, and respiratory symptoms occuring in 50 to 80%, 20 to 40%, and 4 to 25% of cases, respectively. This new book reviews research from around the globe in the study of food allergies including fish allergy diagnosis and detection; allergy mitigation by dietary components; the pathophysiology and mechanisms of food allergy; emergency department anaphylaxis management and management of children with food allergies.
- Contents:
- Food allergy / Alexander K.C. Leung ... [et al.]
- Fish allergy : a comprehensive review of recent developments in fish allergy diagnosis and fish allergen detection / Annette Kuehn ... [et al.]
- Immunomodulation by food : allergy mitigation by dietary components / Harry J. Wichers, Jurriaan J. Mes
- Pathophysiology and mechanisms of food allergy / Patricia Olaya Paschoal ... [et al.]
- In search of a more comprehensive allergy diagnostic : assessment of the total-body IgE pool / Eleonora Dehlink ... [et al.]
- Development of an anaphylaxis order set to improve emergency department anaphylaxis management / Ronna L. Campbell ... [et al.]
- Clinical manifestations of food allergy / Alexander K.C. Leung ... [et al.]
- Management of the child with food allergy / Alexander K.C. Leung ... [et al.].
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-61470-814-2
- OCLC:
- 757394713
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