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Highly Specialized Pediatric Allergy – Clinical Immunology Laboratory

Pediatric Allergy-Clinical Immunology services at Riley Hospital For Children offer expertise in the diagnosis and management of a wide variety of allergic conditions, including asthma, rhinitis, anaphylaxis, atopic dermatitis, urticaria/angioedema and certain gastrointestinal allergic disorders. Riley also offers identification of food, drug, stinging insect and latex-mediated allergic reactions through skin testing and the use of a highly specialized laboratory - the only such laboratory in the state that offers the tools needed to access a variety of immune deficiency conditions.

Treatment of Immunodeficiency Conditions

The Allergy and Clinical Immunology Program specializes in diagnosing immune dysfunction that may account for recurrent infections.

Medication Desensitization Program

Riley Allergists and Clinical Immunology specialists offer and perform numerous drug challenge and desensitization protocols that will allow a child to use a medication that in the past may have caused life-threatening reactions. Challenges and desensitizations have been performed for a wide variety of medications ranging from Botox to non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs.

Food Challenges

Since allergies can change over a patient's life, Riley helps patients and families determine if a food continues to present risk of an allergic reaction. Riley physicians use skin and blood testing to assess the risk of a food reaction. Most recently, physicians have performed food challenges for peanuts, a food once thought to be associated with life-long sensitization.