Allergy Service

Allergies are common among children. Allergies to foods such as nuts, milk, shrimps, colouring or preservatives, and environmental factors like dust mites, perfumes, and even pollen often manifest as disorders of the skin or respiratory system, or affect the functioning of other organs.

As a specialist hospital for children, our Allergy Service can help to assess and manage your child’s allergy, whether mild or severe.

Our expertise extends to:

• The evaluation and management of:
  • Eczema
  • Rhinoconjunctivitis
  • Conjunctivitis
  • Rhinosinusitis
  • Atopic dermatitis
  • Asthma, cough, dyspnea, and recurrent wheeze
  • Acute and chronic urticaria, including physical urticarias
  • Angioedema, including hereditary angioedema
  • Anaphylaxis
  • Food allergy and intolerance
  • Drug and vaccine allergies or intolerance
  • Insect allergy/hypersensitivity
  • Oral allergy syndrome
  • Latex allergy
  • Occupational allergy, asthma, eczema
  • Otitis
• Management of patients with multiple or complex allergies
• Management of patients with multiple food allergies, requiring avoidance or reintroduction diets
• Provision of allergen avoidance advice
• Safe supervision of food and drug challenges in hospital
• Assessment of patients for sublingual immunotherapy. Proper administration of immunotherapy including immunotherapy dose adjustment and management of complications. Supervision of immunotherapy protocols. Recognition and management of allergic reactions associated with immunotherapy
• Evaluation and differentiation of non-IgE mediated hypersensitivity reactions
• Supervision of drug desensitization protocols if clinically indicated
• Management in the community of patients at risk of anaphylactic reactions from food or drugs

Range of services:

• Skin prick testing (SPT) and patch tests
• Diagnosis of suspected drug or vaccine allergy
• Administration of sublingual immunotherapy
• Allergen provocation tests, oral challenges for food and medication challenges
• Patch testing for contact dermatitis
• Basic lung function testing, including spirometry and bronchial provocation tests (methacholine or histamine challenges, measurement of flow-volume loops and pulse oximetry, and prebronchodilator and postbronchodilator testing)
• Knowledge of how and when to measure exhaled nitric oxide, and how and when to perform whole-body plethysmography and impulse oscillometry
• Assessment of environmental hazards in occupational allergy and knowledge of live insect sting allergy
• Management of exclusion diets and provocation diets

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