Food allergy - top articles for December 2012

Here are my suggestions for some of the top articles about food allergy for December 2012:

Perplexing cases of allergy to salami - allergy to ingested mold? http://buff.ly/12kiH1w

Milk allergy resolution calculator from CoFAR http://bit.ly/U6TkNS - Mobile version: http://bit.ly/U6TmFn

Study argues against vitamin D supplement to protect against food allergy http://buff.ly/UkH7WP

Component-resolved diagnostic cannot replace oral challenge for peanut allergy http://buff.ly/UkIvJ6

Atopy patch tests may predict oral tolerance in children with GI symptoms related to non-IgE-mediated milk allergy http://buff.ly/UkIG7d

Egg: A frequent trigger of food protein–induced enterocolitis syndrome (FPIES) - rice may be the most common cause http://buff.ly/Uubz0M

Food allergy and having an adrenaline autoinjector are linked to lower perceived quality of life (study) http://buff.ly/UubDxx

Oral steroids do not normally affect allergy prick or intradermal tests. http://buff.ly/VkptPi

No contraindication to performing percutaneous tests to seafood in a patient taking an ACE inhibitor http://buff.ly/Vkq9UM

The new-generation, sublingual epinephrine tablets have similar bioavailability to epinephrine injected IM in thigh http://buff.ly/UxWQj4

Cork-Southampton Food Challenge Outcome Calculator includes 6 factors: SPT, sIgE, IgE minus sIgE, symptoms, sex, age http://buff.ly/Uuda6V

Anaphylaxis caused by hidden soybean allergens in pillows http://buff.ly/V5vrVt

Peach allergy: A dominant role for birch (Europe) or mugwort pollen lipid transfer protein (China) as a sensitizer http://buff.ly/UudJNY

The articles were selected from my Twitter stream @Allergy and Google Reader RSS subscriptions. Some of the top allergy accounts on Twitter contributed links. I appreciate the curation provided by @JuanCIvancevich @AllergyNet @IgECPD4 @DrAnneEllis @AACMaven @AllergieVoeding @allergistmommy @mrathkopf @wheezemd.

Please feel free to send suggestions for articles to allergycases@gmail.com and you will receive acknowledgement in the next edition of this publication.