Differences in Characteristics Between Patients Who Met or Partly Met the Diagnostic Criteria for Food Protein-Induced Enterocolitis Syndrome (FPIES).

Background: Some patients with food protein-induced enterocolitis (FPIES)-like allergy do not completely fulfill the diagnostic criteria of the international consensus guideline for FPIES. However, it is unclear whether such FPIES-like patients represent a completely different population from FPIES.

Objective: This study aimed to clarify differences in characteristics between patients with FPIES who fully met diagnostic criteria and those who partly met them.

[USE OF MULTIPLE DOSES OF ADRENALINE FOR FOOD-INDUCED ANAPHYLAXIS].

Background: The aim of this study was to determine the rate, characteristics, and risk factors in patients who required multiple doses of adrenaline for treatment of anaphylaxis.

Methods: We retrospectively reviewed the positive oral food challenges (OFCs) with anaphylaxis in pediatric patients at Saitama City Hospital between January 2013 and November 2014, analyzing age, sex, comorbid allergic disease, specific IgE level, food, symptoms, and treatment.

Result: There were 42 positive challenges with anaphylaxis, and the median age of the patients was 4 years old.

Listeria monocytogenes Meningitis Complicating Rotavirus Gastroenteritis in an Immunocompetent Child.

Listeria monocytogenes only occasionally causes bacterial meningitis in immunocompetent children. We report a case of L. monocytogenes meningitis associated with rotavirus gastroenteritis.