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The Allergy Program at Children's Hospital Boston provides evaluation and treatment for children with various types of allergic disorders.
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Our diagnostic evaluations are supported by state-of-the-art allergy and pulmonary function testing facilities in our clinical area along with a highly-specialized clinical laboratory:
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- Comprehensive clinical assessment
- Skin testing for allergy to environmental substances, foods, drugs and insect venoms
- Measurement of pulmonary function by spirometry
- Controlled challenges to assess allergy to foods and medicines
- Atopic Dermatitis Center that provides team evaluation of children with severe eczema including assessment by allergists, dermatologists and psychologists
- Laboratory evaluation on-site including IgE levels testing and RAST assays for allergy.
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We establish an individual treatment plan for each child seen in our program:
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- Education: With each patient and his or her family, we carefully review the triggers of allergic reactions, the possibilities for modifying their home environment, and/or food avoidance and appropriate uses of medicines.
- Medical management: Our focus is on symptom prevention. We prescribe medicines appropriate to the severity of allergic disease. In the case of asthma, we provide families with a written Asthma Management Plan.
- Immunotherapy (allergy shots)
- Behavior modification
- Investigational therapies: The Allergy Program conducts clinical trials to evaluate promising new approaches to the treatment of allergic conditions.
- Coordinated care: We will coordinate your child's care with your child's primary pediatrician to insure the best possible treatment results. Occasionally we request input from our colleagues in the Pulmonary, Gastroenterology and Otolaryngology programs in the management of complex patients.
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