Course Description

This session will review types of patients on restricted diet (IgE mediated food allergies, FPIES and Eosinophilic Esophagitis). We will address individualized avoidance strategies, growth and feeding concerns for those on restricted diet, review nutrition implication and how to introduce safe foods to an allergic child. Aside from avoidance, attendees will learn about early introduction of highly allergenic foods and how to introduce the top 8 allergens to our youngest population. 

Learning Outcomes

Participants will be able to:

1. Explain the nutritional concerns regarding food allergic patients and how to advance diet to meet daily nutritional requirements.
2. Explain how to avoid a patient’s allergies and apply appropriate alternatives based on age.
3. Identify patients and families dealing with anxiety, low quality of life scores and selective eating behavior due to food allergies and diet restrictions.
4. Identify how to introduce highly allergenic foods into infants’ diet safely.
   

Timed Agenda

• 0-10 minutes - Background/statistics on patients with food allergies, FPIES and EoE

• 10-40 minutes - Reviewing growth and nutritional concerns in children with allergies and how to develop individualized avoidance strategies

• 40-50 minutes - How to re-introduce previously restricted foods and forming a plan for those with anxiety and fear. Review quality of life data in this population

• 50-60 minutes - Goal for introducing highly allergenic foods into infants’ diets; early peanut introduction data

• 60-70 minutes - Case Studies

• 70-80 minutes - Questions and comments
  

TOTAL: 80 minutes