We look forward to seeing you on your next visit to the library. Find a location near you.

Food Allergies: A Complete Guide for Eating When Your Life Depends on It
(Adobe EPUB eBook, Kindle Book, OverDrive Read)

Book Cover
Average Rating
Published:
Johns Hopkins University Press 2017
Status:
Available from OverDrive
Description

The essential guide for anyone who suffers from food allergies.

Posing the urgent questions that anyone with food allergies will think to ask—and then some—Food Allergies provides practical, sensitive, and scientific guidance on the topics that affect your life. Allergy expert Scott H. Sicherer addresses the full spectrum of food allergies, from mild to life threatening and from single foods to food families, clearing up misconceptions along the way. He explores how exposure to foods can bring about an allergic response, describes the symptoms of food allergy, and illuminates how food allergies develop.

Organized in an accessible Q&A format and illustrated with case studies, the book thoroughly explains how to prevent exposure to a known allergen at home, at school, in restaurants, and elsewhere. Dr. Sicherer also gives valuable advice about what to do if exposure occurs, including how to handle an anaphylactic emergency. Finally, he describes tests for diagnosing food allergies and chronic health problems caused by food allergies, such as eczema, hives, and respiratory and gastrointestinal symptoms.

In this thoroughly updated new edition, Dr. Sicherer
• describes new approaches to prevent food allergies
• presents cutting-edge theories on risk factors for developing food allergies
• describes innovative allergy tests to improve diagnosis
• explains how to administer emergency medications for severe reactions
• focuses on new allergens of concern, such as pink peppercorns
• analyzes studies suggesting that resolution of an allergy might be predictable
• talks about the role of "healthy diet"
• lists additional resources, including allergy-related apps
• provides revised school food allergy guidelines
• offers insights into food allergy bullying—and advice to reduce it

Dr. Sicherer also reviews food reactions that are not allergic (such as lactose intolerance and celiac disease), advises how to get adequate nutrition when you must avoid dietary staples, and discusses whether allergies ever go away (they do—and sometimes they return).

Also in This Series
Formats
Adobe EPUB eBook
Works on all eReaders (except Kindles), desktop computers and mobile devices with reading apps installed.
Kindle Book
Works on Kindles and devices with a Kindle app installed.
OverDrive Read
Need Help?
If you are having problem transferring a title to your device, please fill out this support form or visit the library so we can help you to use our eBooks and eAudio Books.
More Like This
Other Editions and Formats
More Copies In LINK+
Loading LINK+ Copies...
More Details
Format:
Adobe EPUB eBook, Kindle Book, OverDrive Read
Edition:
2
Street Date:
09/29/2017
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781421423395
ASIN:
B075STTZ2Z
Reviews from GoodReads
Loading GoodReads Reviews.
Citations
APA Citation (style guide)

Scott H. Sicherer. (2017). Food Allergies: A Complete Guide for Eating When Your Life Depends on It. 2 Johns Hopkins University Press.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)

Scott H. Sicherer. 2017. Food Allergies: A Complete Guide for Eating When Your Life Depends On It. Johns Hopkins University Press.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)

Scott H. Sicherer, Food Allergies: A Complete Guide for Eating When Your Life Depends On It. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017.

MLA Citation (style guide)

Scott H. Sicherer. Food Allergies: A Complete Guide for Eating When Your Life Depends On It. 2 Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017.

Note! Citation formats are based on standards as of July 2022. Citations contain only title, author, edition, publisher, and year published. Citations should be used as a guideline and should be double checked for accuracy.
Copy Details
LibraryOwnedAvailable
Shared Digital Collection11
Staff View
Grouped Work ID:
030ae724-b2a9-3fc6-8ee3-711dd1dadb7f
Go To Grouped Work
Needs Update?:
No
Date Added:
Jun 12, 2018 18:30:10
Date Updated:
Nov 18, 2022 19:56:31
Last Metadata Check:
Apr 21, 2024 10:11:26
Last Metadata Change:
Jun 04, 2023 15:31:29
Last Availability Check:
Apr 21, 2024 10:11:29
Last Availability Change:
Mar 25, 2020 22:34:28
Last Grouped Work Modification Time:
Apr 26, 2024 02:10:38

OverDrive Product Record

images
    • cover:
        • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-100/3161-1/{CD4561CF-45B5-4E5E-AFE9-004218514E3D}Img100.jpg
        • type: image/jpeg
    • thumbnail:
        • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-200/3161-1/{CD4561CF-45B5-4E5E-AFE9-004218514E3D}Img200.jpg
        • type: image/jpeg
    • cover150Wide:
        • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-150/3161-1/CD4/561/CF/{CD4561CF-45B5-4E5E-AFE9-004218514E3D}Img150.jpg
        • type: image/jpeg
    • cover300Wide:
        • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-400/3161-1/CD4/561/CF/{CD4561CF-45B5-4E5E-AFE9-004218514E3D}Img400.jpg
        • type: image/jpeg
formats
      • identifiers:
            • type: ISBN
            • value: 9781421423395
      • name: Adobe EPUB eBook
      • id: ebook-epub-adobe
      • identifiers:
            • type: ASIN
            • value: B075STTZ2Z
      • name: Kindle Book
      • id: ebook-kindle
      • identifiers:
            • type: ISBN
            • value: 9781421423395
      • name: OverDrive Read
      • id: ebook-overdrive
mediaType
eBook
primaryCreator
    • role: Author
    • name: Scott H. Sicherer
title
Food Allergies
seriesId
1352566
dateAdded
2017-10-13T18:55:00Z
contentDetails
      • href: https://link.overdrive.com/?websiteID=141&titleID=3248404
      • type: text/html
      • account:
          • name: Sacramento Public Library (CA)
          • id: 1151
sortTitle
Food Allergies A Complete Guide for Eating When Your Life Depends on It
crossRefId
3248404
series
Johns Hopkins Press Health
subtitle
A Complete Guide for Eating When Your Life Depends on It
id
CD4561CF-45B5-4E5E-AFE9-004218514E3D
starRating
3

OverDrive MetaData

isPublicDomain
False
formats
      • fileName: FoodAllergies_9781421423395_3248404
      • partCount: 0
      • fileSize: 2858129
      • identifiers:
            • type: ISBN
            • value: 9781421423395
      • rights:
            • type: Copying
            • value: 0
            • type: Printing
            • value: -1
            • type: Lending
            • value: 0
            • type: ReadAloud
            • value: 1
            • type: ExpirationRights
            • value: 0
      • name: Adobe EPUB eBook
      • isReadAlong: False
      • id: ebook-epub-adobe
      • onSaleDate: 9/24/2017
      • samples:
            • source: From the book
            • formatType: ebook-overdrive
            • url: https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=cd4561cf-45b5-4e5e-afe9-004218514e3d&.epub-sample.overdrive.com
      • fileName: FoodAllergies_3248404
      • partCount: 0
      • fileSize: 0
      • identifiers:
            • type: ASIN
            • value: B075STTZ2Z
      • name: Kindle Book
      • isReadAlong: False
      • id: ebook-kindle
      • onSaleDate: 9/24/2017
      • samples:
            • source: From the book
            • formatType: ebook-overdrive
            • url: https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=cd4561cf-45b5-4e5e-afe9-004218514e3d&.epub-sample.overdrive.com
      • fileName: FoodAllergies_9781421423395_3248404
      • partCount: 0
      • fileSize: 2858129
      • identifiers:
            • type: ISBN
            • value: 9781421423395
      • name: OverDrive Read
      • isReadAlong: False
      • id: ebook-overdrive
      • onSaleDate: 9/24/2017
      • samples:
            • source: From the book
            • formatType: ebook-overdrive
            • url: https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=cd4561cf-45b5-4e5e-afe9-004218514e3d&.epub-sample.overdrive.com
creators
      • role: Author
      • fileAs: Sicherer, Scott H.
      • bioText:

        Scott H. Sicherer, MD, is a professor of pediatrics and chief of the Division of Pediatric Allergy and Immunology at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and a researcher in the Jaffe Food Allergy Institute. He is the author of Understanding and Managing Your Child's Food Allergies.

      • name: Scott H. Sicherer
      • role: Author
      • fileAs: Sampson, Hugh A.
      • name: Hugh A. Sampson
publishDate
2017-09-29T00:00:00-04:00
edition
2
isOwnedByCollections
True
title
Food Allergies
fullDescription

The essential guide for anyone who suffers from food allergies.

Posing the urgent questions that anyone with food allergies will think to ask—and then some—Food Allergies provides practical, sensitive, and scientific guidance on the topics that affect your life. Allergy expert Scott H. Sicherer addresses the full spectrum of food allergies, from mild to life threatening and from single foods to food families, clearing up misconceptions along the way. He explores how exposure to foods can bring about an allergic response, describes the symptoms of food allergy, and illuminates how food allergies develop.

Organized in an accessible Q&A format and illustrated with case studies, the book thoroughly explains how to prevent exposure to a known allergen at home, at school, in restaurants, and elsewhere. Dr. Sicherer also gives valuable advice about what to do if exposure occurs, including how to handle an anaphylactic emergency. Finally, he describes tests for diagnosing food allergies and chronic health problems caused by food allergies, such as eczema, hives, and respiratory and gastrointestinal symptoms.

In this thoroughly updated new edition, Dr. Sicherer
• describes new approaches to prevent food allergies
• presents cutting-edge theories on risk factors for developing food allergies
• describes innovative allergy tests to improve diagnosis
• explains how to administer emergency medications for severe reactions
• focuses on new allergens of concern, such as pink peppercorns
• analyzes studies suggesting that resolution of an allergy might be predictable
• talks about the role of "healthy diet"
• lists additional resources, including allergy-related apps
• provides revised school food allergy guidelines
• offers insights into food allergy bullying—and advice to reduce it

Dr. Sicherer also reviews food reactions that are not allergic (such as lactose intolerance and celiac disease), advises how to get adequate nutrition when you must avoid dietary staples, and discusses whether allergies ever go away (they do—and sometimes they return).

seriesId
1352566
reviews
      • premium: False
      • source: Johns Hopkins Medicine
      • content:

        "As the subtitle of Sicherer's book bluntly observes, these allergies can be fatal. That's why this allencompassing and timely revision of his already praised book is so important for everyone who takes care of those with food allergies—from physicians, nurses, teachers and spouses to adults with food allergies and parents with children who are allergic to certain foods."

popularity
56
links
    • self:
        • href: https://api.overdrive.com/v1/collections/v1L1BWwAAAA2I/products/cd4561cf-45b5-4e5e-afe9-004218514e3d/metadata
        • type: application/vnd.overdrive.api+json
id
cd4561cf-45b5-4e5e-afe9-004218514e3d
starRating
3
images
    • cover:
        • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-100/3161-1/{CD4561CF-45B5-4E5E-AFE9-004218514E3D}Img100.jpg
        • type: image/jpeg
    • thumbnail:
        • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-200/3161-1/{CD4561CF-45B5-4E5E-AFE9-004218514E3D}Img200.jpg
        • type: image/jpeg
    • cover150Wide:
        • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-150/3161-1/CD4/561/CF/{CD4561CF-45B5-4E5E-AFE9-004218514E3D}Img150.jpg
        • type: image/jpeg
    • cover300Wide:
        • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-400/3161-1/CD4/561/CF/{CD4561CF-45B5-4E5E-AFE9-004218514E3D}Img400.jpg
        • type: image/jpeg
isPublicPerformanceAllowed
False
languages
      • code: en
      • name: English
subjects
      • value: Health & Fitness
      • value: Medical
      • value: Nonfiction
publishDateText
09/29/2017
otherFormatIdentifiers
      • type: ISBN
      • value: 9781421423388
mediaType
eBook
shortDescription

The essential guide for anyone who suffers from food allergies.

Posing the urgent questions that anyone with food allergies will think to ask—and then some—Food Allergies provides practical, sensitive, and scientific guidance on the topics that affect your life. Allergy expert Scott H. Sicherer addresses the full spectrum of food allergies, from mild to life threatening and from single foods to food families, clearing up misconceptions along the way. He explores how exposure to foods can bring about an allergic response, describes the symptoms of food allergy, and illuminates how food allergies develop.

Organized in an accessible Q&A format and illustrated with case studies, the book thoroughly explains how to prevent exposure to a known allergen at home, at school, in restaurants, and elsewhere. Dr. Sicherer also gives valuable advice about what to do if exposure occurs, including how to handle an anaphylactic emergency. Finally, he describes tests...

sortTitle
Food Allergies A Complete Guide for Eating When Your Life Depends on It
crossRefId
3248404
series
Johns Hopkins Press Health
subtitle
A Complete Guide for Eating When Your Life Depends on It
publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
tableOfContents

Preface
Introduction, by Hugh A. Sampson
1. What Are the BASIC FACTS about Food Allergy?
2. What Do I Need to Tell the Doctor to Help Get a FOOD ALLERGY DIAGNOSIS?
3. These Food ALLERGY TESTS Are Confusing! What Do They Mean?
4. What Is ANAPHYLAXIS and How Do I Treat It?
5. What CHRONIC HEALTH PROBLEMS Are Caused by Food Allergy?
6. How Do I AVOID ALLERGIC REACTIONS to Foods?
7. How Do I Manage a Food Allergy While Living a Normal and Healthy LIFESTYLE, with ADEQUATE NUTRITION?
8. Will These Food Allergies Ever GO AWAY?
9. Is There Any Way to PREVENT Food Allergies?
10. Will There Be a CURE or BETTER TREATMENT of Food Allergy?
11. How Do I Get MORE HELP and INFORMATION to Manage Food Allergies?
Index

bisacCodes
      • code: HEA027000
      • description: Health & Fitness / Allergies
      • code: HEA048000
      • description: Health & Fitness / Diet & Nutrition / General
      • code: MED044000
      • description: Medical / Immunology