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Annette Carlisle1, Jay Adam Lieberman2
1Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pulmonology, Allergy & Immunology, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, LeBonheur Children's Hospital, 51 N. Dunlap Street, Suite 400, Memphis, TN, 38105, USA. acarlis3@uthsc.edu.
Purpose Of Review:
Exercise induced anaphylaxis (EIA) can be difficult to diagnose due to the interplay of co-factors on clinical presentation and the lack of standardized, confirmatory testing.
Recent Findings:
EIA has been historically categorized as either food-independent or food-dependent. However, recent literature has suggested that perhaps EIA is more complex given the relationship between not only food on EIA but other various co-factors such as medications and alcohol ingestion that are either required to elicit symptoms in EIA or make symptoms worse. For the practicing clinician, understanding how these co-factors can be implicated in EIA can enable one to take a more personalized approach in treating patients with EIA and thus improve quality of life for patients.
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