WAO Allergy Quiz

Check your AQ (Allergy Quotient)

Edited by Glenis Scadding, MD

This month's quiz question was contributed by Maximiliano Gómez MD, Head, Allergy & Immunology Unit, Hospital San Bernardo, Salta, Argentina.

Posted: 14 May 2010

A two-year old patient is presenting with failure to thrive, vomiting and irritability. What is your presumptive diagnosis? And what complementary evaluations would you ask for?

a. Food allergy: Specific IgE and/or patch test
b. Eosinophilic esophagitis: Endoscopy and biopsy
c. GERD: pH measurement
d. Both 2 and 3 above
e. All of the above