Ralf G. Heine

TL;DR: The WAO Diagnosis and Rationale for Action against Cow's Milk Allergy (DRACMA) Guidelines was planned to provide physicians everywhere with a management tool to deal with CMA from suspicion to treatment and to relieve the burden of issues through an ongoing and collective effort of more interactive debate and integrated learning.

TL;DR: Alessandro Fiocchi, MD, Pediatric Division, Department of Child and Maternal Medicine, University of Milan Medical School at the Melloni Hospital, Milan 20129, Italy, and Holger Schünemann,MD, department of Clinical Epidemiology & Biostatistics, McMaster University Health Sciences Centre, 1200 Main Street West Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.

TL;DR: The basis for concern over the current recommendation to delay complementary foods as an approach to preventing allergic disease is explored and the growing case for introducing complementary foods from around 4 months of age and maintaining breastfeeding during this early feeding period, for at least 6’months if possible is examined.

TL;DR: Assessment of the diagnostic agreement between food‐specific immunoglobulin E (IgE) antibody levels and SPT in a cohort of 820 infants and children under 2 yr of age with suspected allergy to cow milk, egg or peanut found SPT was more sensitive in diagnosing allergy to egg and peanut.

TL;DR: The contributions in allergen science, epidemiology, natural history, evidence-based diagnosis, and therapy synthesized in the World Allergy Organization Diagnosis and Rationale for Action against Cow's Milk Allergy guidelines are presented.