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Food allergy is growing in prevalence across the nation. Asthma exists as a comorbidity in a large proportion of children with food allergy as part of the atopic march. Food allergy alone can pose its challenges in diagnosis and management and can change based on ethnicity and gender. With the addition of asthma, children can be predisposed to increased risk of severe or fatal reactions. Care must thus be taken to ensure that symptoms of asthma are recognized and diagnosed early on, and appropriate treatment is administered. In this chapter, we give an overview of both food allergy and asthma, their clinical presentation and pathophysiology, presence as a comorbidity, diagnosis and management. We also address the increased risks that food allergy poses in children with asthma and how to best manage these risks.

AE is supported by the National Research Service Award for Fellowship in Immunology and Allergy, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases T32 AI60515-01

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Abbreviations

ACT:

Asthma control test

EAACI:

European Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immunology

ED:

Emergency department

FAAP:

Food Action Allergy Plan

FARE:

Food Allergy Research and Education

FEV1:

Forced expiratory volume in 1 second

FVC:

Forced vital capacity

ICU:

Intensive care unit

NCHS:

National Center for Health Statistics

NHANES:

National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey

NHIS:

National Health Interview Survey

OFC:

Oral food challenge

OIT:

Oral immunotherapy

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Eapen, A.A., Assa’ad, A. (2020). Asthma. In: Gupta, R. (eds) Pediatric Food Allergy . Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-33292-1_6

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