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Allergy & Immunology • Allergic Skin Diseases
How do you approach patients who develop eczema flare after food exposure?
Do you recommend allergy testing? Avoidance? If the patient tests positive on a skin test, do you recommend avoidance or continued exposure?
Answer from: at Academic Institution
It depends on the timing of the eczema flare; if there are other immediate symptoms, it could be an IgE-mediated reaction. But if it is an isolated, delayed flare of eczema, it is a rare association; management depends on how reproducible the association is and the severity of the eczema. The age of...
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