A medical nutrition therapy primer for childhood asthma: current and emerging perspectives.

Asthma is the most common chronic disease in children. Prevalence has increased in the past 2 decades and has reached a plateau of approximately 9% of children in the United States, affecting about 6.7 million children.

Nutritional management of children who have food allergies and eosinophilic esophagitis.

Over the past decade, eosinophilic esophagitis has become increasingly prevalent in the United States. One of the effective treatment approaches is dietary management, which aims to eliminate exposure to food allergens. Approaches to dietary management include the use of elemental diets, elimination diets, and tailored elimination diets, each of which poses potential nutrition risks.