In food allergy, we sometimes forget to think of food in a positive sense; that food can actually make you feel better. Food is medicine for food allergies.

It takes collaboration with a registered dietician to learn how to eat gluten free in a way that nourishes the body. Food is medicine for celiac disease.

Food is medicine for EoE in the sense that it is broadening people’s viewpoints to think outside the box: ‘hey, my child is being treated, it just isn’t a pill.'

Peanut oral immunotherapy is not for everyone and avoidance is still a valid treatment option. However, if you are thinking about OIT for your child, here are some questions to consider before starting this treatment.

Being a good physician requires intelligence, compassion, and leadership. Chitra certainly had all of these qualities and more. 

Epinephrine is the recommended treatment for anaphylaxis. Epinephrine is given by direct injection into the muscle (most commonly in the outer thigh), with an epinephrine autoinjector.