Food Allergy and Anaphylaxis: Needs, perspectives and best practices for patients with food allergy

Food Allergy and Anaphylaxis: Needs, perspectives and best practices for patients with food allergy

Food allergy can result in considerable morbidity, impact negatively on quality of life, and prove costly in terms of medical care. It is mostly IgE-mediated and a chronic disease affecting up to 4% of the European population.

This eLearning product delves into the epidemiology and economics; the needs, perspectives and best practices for food allergic patients; allergens and their detection; the role of the skin barrier and skin manifestations of food allergy; latest updates in diagnosis and management; and the immune processes in the disease.

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Educational Outcome

  • To learn about important aspects for helping patients understand food allergy diagnosis and management, including:
  • To help set the patient perspective regarding diagnosis through consideration of the needs of patients and anticipated issues, with a clinical focus on how to approach and support the adolescent patient.
  • To learn how to develop a food challenge protocol for different age groups and for different type of food challenges
  • To learn about nutritional components with immunomodulatory effects and their impact on threshold levels in oral food challenge tests and on disease severity in adult eosinophilic esophagitis patients

Speakers


Jennifer Gerdts

The patients viewpoint on getting a good diagnosis


Graham Roberts

Supporting adolescents at risk of anaphylaxis


Daisy Luiten

Dietary composition in peanut allergic children is related to threshold levels in oral food challenge tests


Sanne Wielders

Dietary composition in adult eosinophilic esophagitis patients is related to disease severity


Carina Venter

Oral food challenges – the dieticians perspective

Contents

  • The patients viewpoint on getting a good diagnosis
  • Assessment
  • Supporting adolescents at risk of anaphylaxis
  • Assessment: Supporting adolescents at risk of anaphylaxis
  • Oral food challenges – the dieticians perspective
  • Assessment: Oral food challenges
  • Dietary composition in peanut allergic children is related to threshold levels in oral food challenge tests
  • Assessment: Dietary composition in peanut allergic children
  • Dietary composition in adult eosinophilic esophagitis patients is related to disease severity
  • Assessment: Dietary composition in adult eosinophilic esophagitis patients is related to disease severity
  • Certificate of successful completion