scholarly journals Food allergy: Mechanisms, diagnosis, and management

2021 ◽  
Vol 35 ◽  
pp. 100-104
Author(s):  
Sowmya Arudi Nagarajan ◽  
Harsha Neramballi Subba Rao
Keyword(s):  
Food Allergy ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Public Perception ◽  
Early Introduction ◽  
Diagnosis And Management ◽  
True Prevalence ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
Developed World ◽  
India And China

Food allergy (FA) is a dynamic field. It is not only evolving but also increasing in the prevalence and incidence all over the world. The term “Food allergy” is often misused, not only by patients, their families but also by health professionals. All adverse food reactions are erroneously labeled as “Food allergy.” This has to be recognized and avoided to make a proper evaluation, diagnosis and management. Surveys have shown that the prevalence of FA based on public perception runs as high as 60%, whereas the true prevalence is around is around 2–8%. FA is more common in early childhood days (6–8%) compared to adults (1–2%). There are several known and unknown reasons for changing picture of FA across the globe. In the developed world, the peanut sensitivity has doubled in prevalence over the past decade. In the developing world (namely, India, and China), the prevalence of Peanut sensitivity/allergy is much less, although the consumption of Peanuts is much higher. Lately, it has also been observed that early introduction of so called “allergenic foods” to infants and children early in life seems to actually reduce the incidence of allergies developing later in childhood.

scholarly journals The emergence of Kawasaki disease in India and China

2018 ◽  
Vol 2017 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ankur Kumar Jindal ◽  
Vingesh Pandiarajan ◽  
Raju Khubchandani ◽  
Nutan Kamath ◽  
Tapas Sabui ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Heart Disease ◽  
Kawasaki Disease ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Resource Constrained ◽  
Diagnosis And Management ◽  
China And India ◽  
The World ◽  
Acquired Heart Disease ◽  
India And China

Kawasaki disease (KD) is recognized as a leading cause of acquired heart disease in children in developed countries. Although global in distribution, Japan records the highest incidence of KD in the world. Epidemiological reports from the two most populous countries in the world, namely China and India, indicate that KD is now being increasingly recognized. Whether this increased reporting is due to increased ascertainment, or is due to a true increase in incidence, remains a matter of conjecture. The diagnosis and management of KD in developing countries is a challenging proposition. In this review we highlight some of the difficulties faced by physicians in managing children with KD in resource-constrained settings. 

scholarly journals Improved prospects for food allergy prevention

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 254 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rohan Ameratunga
Keyword(s):  
Food Allergy ◽  
High Risk ◽  
Allergy Prevention ◽  
Window Of Opportunity ◽  
Early Introduction ◽  
The World ◽  
Food Challenges ◽  
High Risk Children

ABSTRACT Three recent publications from Professor Gideon Lack have fundamentally changed our understanding of how to prevent food allergy. His team has shown that early introduction of allergenic foods may prevent food allergy in most but not all high-risk children. Various allergy and paediatric societies around the world are changing their recommendations based on these three studies. It appears there is a window of opportunity to safely introduce allergenic foods to high-risk children. This has resource implications, as some of these children will need testing and food challenges.

International Themes in Psychotherapy Integration

2019 ◽  
pp. 448-473
Author(s):  
Beatriz Gómez ◽  
Shigeru Iwakabe ◽  
Alexandre Vaz
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Health Professionals ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Psychotherapy Integration ◽  
Historical Background ◽  
The Past ◽  
Current Climate ◽  
The World ◽  
Training And Research ◽  
Sociopolitical Issues

Interest in psychotherapy integration has steadily expanded over the past decades, reaching most continents of the world and more mental health professionals than ever. Nevertheless, a country’s cultural and historical background significantly influences the nurturance or hindrance of integrative endeavors. This chapter seeks to explicate the current climate of psychotherapy integration in different continents and specific countries. With the aid of local integrative scholars, brief descriptions are presented on integrative practice, training, and research, as well as on cultural and sociopolitical issues that have shaped this movement’s impact around the world.

scholarly journals HISTORY OF PSYCHOSOCIAL REHABILITATION IN INDIA

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 53-58
Author(s):  
L. Ponnuchamy
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Health Professionals ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Psychiatric Treatment ◽  
Psychosocial Rehabilitation ◽  
Colonial Rule ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
British Colonial

Psychosocial Rehabilitation (PSR) is a part of psychiatric treatment for persons with chronic mentally illness. In the past two decades, the importance of psychosocial rehabilitation is increasing gradually.  The concept and approaches of PSR have been spreading steadily all over the world.  It is a growing field in the developing countries like India.  The information about history of psychosocial rehabilitation among the mental health professionals is inadequate.  But one could see the route of this, even before our country got independence from British colonial rule.  It is always happy to see pathways of any field or subject how it was evolved and developed.    This is an attempt with available resources to bring out the history to the light.

Food Allergy

2011 ◽  
Vol 145 (5) ◽  
pp. 713-716
Author(s):  
William Reisacher ◽  
Cecelia Damask ◽  
Karen Calhoun ◽  
Maria Veling
Keyword(s):  
Food Allergy ◽  
Infectious Diseases ◽  
American Academy ◽  
Neck Surgery ◽  
Food Allergies ◽  
Current Evidence ◽  
Diagnosis And Management ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Media ◽  
State Of The Science

In the past several years, food allergies have taken center stage in the media and have become a topic of great concern for our patients and their families. Whether or not this is due to a rise in the prevalence of food allergies or just a heightened awareness, it is our responsibility as clinicians and scientists to critically analyze the current evidence available concerning the epidemiology, manifestations, diagnosis, and management of this disease. In 2010, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) published guidelines concerning the diagnosis and management of food allergies. Since 2009, the Allergy, Asthma and Immunology Committee of the American Academy of Otolaryngology—Head and Neck Surgery has sponsored a miniseminar titled, “Food Allergy: State of the Science.” This commentary focuses on the highlights from the 2010 meeting and provides some thoughts on what this latest publication means to otolaryngologists.

The older worker

2013 ◽  
pp. 525-551
Author(s):  
Henry N. Goodall ◽  
John Grimley Evans
Keyword(s):  
Population Structure ◽  
Demographic Transition ◽  
Working Life ◽  
Social Structures ◽  
Occupational Physicians ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
Working Age ◽  
Developed World

Throughout the world, populations are ageing, as birth rates fall and people live longer. This ‘demographic transition’ brings about a permanent change in population structure and an increase in the ratio of people traditionally regarded as being of ‘retirement age’ to those traditionally regarded as being of ‘working age’. Both for the productivity of a population and for the funding of pensions and other social benefits, the whole trajectory of working life and the social structures that underpin it have to change to match labour resources to needs. In particular, people in the developed world must expect to continue working to later ages than in the past, a change that has implications both for the employed and for employers. Occupational physicians have an important role to play in making longer working lifetimes possible, productive, and pleasant.

The Need for New Recruitment Strategies

2008 ◽  
Vol 02 (02) ◽  
pp. 21-23
Author(s):  
Manoj Parmesh
Keyword(s):  
Human Resources ◽  
Public Perception ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Oil And Gas Industry ◽  
Recruitment Strategies ◽  
Gas Industry ◽  
Baby Boomer Generation ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
Hr Function

HR Perspective Recruitment has become the most challenging human resources (HR) function across all industries today. For a specialized field such as oil and gas, the challenges are enormous. Why is it so difficult to attract new talent? There are three main reasons. First, industrial activity across the world is at an all-time high, which has created more jobs and thus shrunk the availability of personnel. Second, the oil and gas industry has been hurt over the past 20 years because of its cyclicality and public perception. Third, the "baby boomer" generation is approaching retirement and the younger generation is not in sufficient numbers or experienced enough to fill the gap.

scholarly journals India: The Future Economic And Knowledge Super Power?

2011 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
RamMohan R. Yallapragada ◽  
Alfred G. Toma ◽  
C. William Roe
Keyword(s):  
Direct Investment ◽  
Global Economy ◽  
Global Markets ◽  
Steep Ascent ◽  
Poor Countries ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
Centralized Planning ◽  
The Impact ◽  
India And China

India and China are the only countries in the world having a population of over one billion each. Until the 1980s, their economies were among the poorest in the world. India has been the largest democracy since 1947 but heart-rending sights of extreme poverty can be seen even in the flourishing business capitals. There are no subways, very few highways which results in nightmarish tangle of traffic all the time. China has been under the communist rule since the revolution led by Mao Tse Tung in 1966 and still continues to be under the centralized communist rule. Both the countries operated under centralized planning and kept their economies closed to global markets. However, in the past two decades, the world is witnessing a strange miracle taking place in both the countries. In the early 1980s, first China and later, India, started opening their economies to foreign direct investment and began participating more and more in global trade. The world had never witnessed this rare phenomenon of two relatively poor countries that together consist of a third of the worlds population, simultaneously taking off on a steep ascent in their economies. During the past twenty years, China has been growing at a heady rate of over 9% a year and India has growing at over 6% per year. This miraculous and sustained growth of these two countries is being watched by the rest of the world with mixture of surprise and apprehension. At this rate, it is expected that, within the next two or three decades, India and China together would account for over half of the entire worlds output. This paper presents the several factors of the phenomenal development of the Indian economy and analyses the impact of continued rise in their prosperity on the global economy.

A basic introduction to image processing using NIH-Image as a model

1994 ◽  
Vol 52 ◽  
pp. 392-393
Author(s):  
John Mansfield
Keyword(s):  
Image Processing ◽  
Digital Image ◽  
Image Acquisition ◽  
Digital Instrument ◽  
Novice User ◽  
Nih Image ◽  
The Past ◽  
Digital World ◽  
The World ◽  
Instrument Control

Advances in camera technology and digital instrument control have meant that in modern microscopy, the image that was, in the past, typically recorded on a piece of film is now recorded directly into a computer. The transfer of the analog image seen in the microscope to the digitized picture in the computer does not mean, however, that the problems associated with recording images, analyzing them, and preparing them for publication, have all miraculously been solved. The steps involved in the recording an image to film remain largely intact in the digital world. The image is recorded, prepared for measurement in some way, analyzed, and then prepared for presentation.Digital image acquisition schemes are largely the realm of the microscope manufacturers, however, there are also a multitude of “homemade” acquisition systems in microscope laboratories around the world. It is not the mission of this tutorial to deal with the various acquisition systems, but rather to introduce the novice user to rudimentary image processing and measurement.

On the Symbolism of Rain in A Farewell to Arms

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Research Tool ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
Farewell To Arms

This paper critically analyzes the symbolic use of rain in A Farewell to Arms (1929). The researcher has applied the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis as a research tool for the analysis of the text. This hypothesis argues that the languages spoken by a person determine how one observes this world and that the peculiarities encoded in each language are all different from one another. It affirms that speakers of different languages reflect the world in pretty different ways. Hemingway’s symbolic use of rain in A Farewell to Arms (1929) is denotative, connotative, and ironical. The narrator and protagonist, Frederick Henry symbolically embodies his own perceptions about the world around him. He time and again talks about rain when something embarrassing is about to ensue like disease, injury, arrest, retreat, defeat, escape, and even death. Secondly, Hemingway has connotatively used rain as a cleansing agent for washing the past memories out of his mind. Finally, the author has ironically used rain as a symbol when Henry insists on his love with Catherine Barkley while the latter being afraid of the rain finds herself dead in it.

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