Establishment of a medical cooperation system for food allergy; the role of allergy specialists in outpatient clinics; a multi-occupational collaborative project on children's food allergies in Ehime Prefecture and results of oral food challenges in my outpatient clinic

Abstract

Practitioners of allergist should also enlighten the appropriate and up-to-date knowledge for the families who have food allergies and for the people around them. To achieve the purpose, it is necessary to build regional cooperation with hospital doctors first, and then with the assistance of childcare and educational organization.

The oral food challenge (OFC) is indispensable to provide appropriate information, such as the extent of food to which individual child needs to remove. I believe that it is sufficient to use a single OFC just once within the same day and check the safety of the amount to eat. After the first load, I experienced that the amount of food consumption was able to increase by repeating OFC once a day.

This article reports on the food allergy multi-occupational collaborative project which has been implemented in Ehime prefecture since 2006, aiming to establish a murti-occupational collaboration, and the experience of OFC, which emphasizes the safety at my clinic.