Dr Loh Wenyin

About

Dr Loh Wenyin is a Senior Consultant with the Allergy Service at KK Women's and Children's Hospital and has a subspecialty interest in food allergy, eczema and allergic gastrointestinal diseases. She supervises oral food challenges, drug provocation tests and is involved in the development of hospital protocols for the evaluation and management of various allergic diseases. She completed a research fellowship at Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, focusing on oral immunotherapy in children with peanut allergy in 2016. She has also completed a postgraduate certificate in allergy with Imperial College London in 2017. She is currently a junior member of the APAAACI (Asia Pacific Association of Allergy, Asthma and Clinical Immunology) Food Allergy and Anaphylaxis Committee.

Education and Training

• Postgraduate Certificate in Allergy (Imperial College London, UK) 2017
• Research Fellowship in Peanut Oral Immunotherapy (Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Australia) 2016
• MMed Paediatrics (Singapore) 2012
• MRCPCH (UK) 2009
  
• MBBS (Singapore) 2006

Professional Appointments and Committee Memberships

• Adjunct Instructor, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicince, National University of Singapore
• Physician Faculty Member, Pediatrics, SingHealth Residency
• Consultant, Paediatric Allergy, KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital 2012 – 2024
  
• Member, Asia Pacific Association of Allergy, Asthma and Clinical Immunology 2019 – Present
• Member, Allergy and Clinical Immunology Society, Singapore 2015 – Present
• Member, European Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immunology 2013 – Present
• Member, World Allergy Organisation 2013 – Present
  

Research Interests

• Food Allergy
  
• Food Specific Immunotherapy
• Allergic Gastrointestinal Disorders
  
• NSAID Hypersensitivity

Publications

• Predictive value of peanut skin prick test, specific IgE in peanut-sensitized children in Singaporean children. Chong KW, Saffari SE, Chan N, Seah R, Tan CH, Goh SH, Goh A, Loh W. Asia Pac Allergy 2019;9:e21.
  
• Cashew nut allergy in Singaporean children. Chitta S, Lian BX, Rao R, Loh W, Goh A, Chong KW. Asia Pac Allergy 2018;8:e29.
  
• The epidemiology of food allergy in the global context. Loh W, Tang MLK. Int J Environmental Research and Public Health 2018;15:2043.
  
• Debates in Allergy Medicine: Oral immunotherapy shortens the duration of milk and egg allergy – the con argument. Loh W, Tang MLK. World Allergy Organization Journal 2018;11:12.
  
• An unusual case of infant seizures with anaphylaxis to wheat. Chong KW, Ling S, Loh W. Asia Pac Allergy 2018;8:e13.
  
• Cause and clinical presentation of anaphylaxis in Singapore: from infancy to old age. Goh SH, Soh JY, Loh W, Lee KP, Tan SC, Heng WJK, Ibrahim I, Lee BW, Chiang WC. Int Arch Allergy Immunol 2018;175:91-98.
• Adjuvant Therapies in Food Immunotherapy. Loh W, Tang MLK. Immunol Allergy Clin N Am 2018;38:89-101
• Absence of esophageal eosinophilia in a toddler with severe eosinophilic esophagitis. Loh W, Wright KM, Chiou FK. Asia Pac Allergy 2017;7:243-246.
• Pilot study of the use of Yin Qiao San in children with conventional antipyretic hypersensitivity. Liew WK, Loh W, Chiang WC, Goh A, Chay OM, Kidon MI. Asia Pac Allergy 2015;5:222-229
• Tolerance to etoricoxib in children with nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug hypersensitivity. Loh W, Lim HH, Rao R, Goh A, Ong LX, Chiang WC. Asia Pac Allergy 2015;5:40-46
• Anaphylaxis to Galacto-oligosaccharides - An Evaluation in an Atopic Population in Singapore. Soh JY, Huang CH, Chiang WC, Llanora GV, Lee AJ, Loh W, Chin YL, Tay VY, Chang YH, Delsing D, Lee BW. Allergy 2015; 70(8): 1020-3
• Allergic Rhinitis and Non-Allergic Rhinitis in Children in the Tropics: Prevalence and Risk Associations. Chiang WC, Chen YM, Tan HK, Balakrishnan A, Liew WK, Lim HH, Goh SH, Loh WY. Pediatr Pulmonol. Oct 2012; 47(10): 1026-33