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Allergy: risks of under- and overestimation

Didier EBO

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▪ Peanuts: to eat or not to eat?

▪ Cannabis: free your mind and the rest mightfollow.

▪ Penicilin: guilty as charged?

Peanut allergy: do not underestimate

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▪ For millions this isn’t peanuts

▪ USA:

▪ 1.8% of population

▪ 75-100 deaths every year

▪ Correct diagnosis:

▪ Hx

▪ sIgE

▪ (Skin tests)

▪ (Provocation tests)

Positive sIgE

Irrelevantsensibilisation

Oral Allergy Syndrome (OAS)

Anaphylaxis

Peanut allergy: do not overestimate

JACIP 2017

Decuyper I et al. Arch Immunol Ther Exp 2015

Immunol Allergy Clin North Am. 2017 Nov;37(4):643-662. doi: 10.1016/j.iac.2017.07.001. Epub 2017 Sep 1.

“Penicillin” allergy: do not overestimate

JAMA 2017

“Penicillin” allergy: do not underestimate

▪ Peanut allergy

▪ Severe, diagnosis not always straight forward (provocation)

▪ Primary prevention

▪ Cannabis allergy: is not a myth and extendsbeyond the joint

▪ Penicillin: not guilty until proven

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