Allergy and Clinical Immunology

Riley's Allergy-Clinical Immunology Specialists 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 Children's Specialists 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 Children's 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 Children's Specialists 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.