Food Allergy in Children, An Issue of Pediatric Clinics

Dr. Coppes and his co-Editors have created a comprehensive table of contents that addresses the full spectrum of food allergies in children. Articles are presented to be most useful to pediatricians, as the issue begins with the clinical presentation and epidemiology of food allergy, and then progresses to the diagnostic testing and pahthophysiology. Articles are also included that are devoted to specific types of food allergy, dairy, soy, egg, peanut, and tree nut. Finally, articles are also devoted to living with food allergies, management of allergies in schools and camps, and therapies for food allergies.

About the author

Children's National Medical Center, Washington, DCJohns Hopkins Medical Institute, Bethesda, MD

Product details

• Authors: Max J Coppes, Max J. Coppes, Coppes Max J., Hemant Sharma, Sharma Hemant, Robert Wood
• Publisher: Elsevier Health Science
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.04.2011
• EAN: 9781455707867
• ISBN: 978-1-4557-0786-7
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 228 mm x 229 mm
• Weight: 470 g
• Series: The Clinics: Internal Medicine; Pediatric Clinics of North Ame
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Clinical medicine; MEDICAL / Immunology, Allergies, MEDICAL / Pediatrics, Paediatric medicine, Medicine: Allergies, Paediatric medicine / child and adolescent medicine