Carmen Riggioni

Oct 30, 2024 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Alexandra Santos |Carmen Riggioni |Temerty Faculty |Ioana Agache

1 INTRODUCTION IgE-mediated food allergy affects up to 10% of the population, particularly the younger age groups, who are also at higher risk of nutritional deficiencies as a consequence of unsupervised and unduly prolonged avoidance diets.1-3 Conversely, young children are also the age group with more opportunities for prevention and disease-modifying treatments, as their immune response is more plastic and more amenable to immunomodulation.

Sep 20, 2024 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Alexandra Santos |Carmen Riggioni |Temerty Faculty |George du Toit

The European Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immunology (EAACI) recently launched their updated Clinical Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Management of IgE-mediated Food Allergy, which provide evidence-based recommendations for the practicing clinician seeing children and/or adults with suspected IgE-mediated food allergy.1 This medical algorithm aims to summarize the practical approach to individual patients considering both diagnosis (Figure 1) and management (Figure 2), following EAACI...

Sep 3, 2024 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Carmen Riggioni |Temerty Faculty |Agnes Sze-yin Leung |Rachel L. Peters

Corresponding Author Carmen Riggioni Division of Immunology and Allergy, The Hospital for Sick Children and the SickKids Food Allergy and Anaphylaxis Program, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Department of Paediatrics, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Correspondence Carmen Riggioni, Division of Immunology and Allergy, The Hospital for Sick Children and the SickKids Food Allergy and Anaphylaxis Program, Toronto, ON, Canada.

Oct 10, 2023 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Alexandra Santos |Carmen Riggioni |Ioana Agache |Cezmi A. Akdis

1 INTRODUCTION Food allergy constitutes a major public health issue with increasing prevalence having been documented in the past few decades.1 It affects about 3–10% of children and up to 10% of adults.2-4 Data from Australia reported 10% prevalence of food allergy in infants.5 A UK study reported a prevalence for food allergy of 7.1% at age 3 years in breast-fed infants.6 In a recent systematic review, the self-reported physician-diagnosed lifetime prevalence of any food allergy was 9.3%...