This text presents clinical approaches for a full range of paediatric immunologic diseases, as well as descriptions of the latest immune-directed therapies and immunizations. It offers detailed guidelines for the diagnosis and management of upper airway allergies, asthma, food allergies, allergic skin and eye diseases, and drug allergies and anaphylaxis. It discusses each allergy syndrome's differential diagnoses key concepts, evaluation, environmental triggers and emerging and established treatments and therapeutic principles, and provides enough basic science background to help readers understand the clinical recommendations. Also included are two-colour figures illustrating complex principles, plus an insert containing colour photographs that capture delicate visual nuances such as cutaneous manifestations.
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