Children with Existing Allergies Should Be Screened for an Emerging, Severe Chronic Food Allergy
Children's Hospital of PhiladelphiaChildren with known skin, food and respiratory allergies should be screened for an emerging food allergy called eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE), a painful inflammation of the esophagus. Pediatric allergists who analyzed a very large group of children say that EoE is a later component of the “allergic march”-- in which many children successively develop a series of allergies.