Welcome to Episode 11 of the Allergy mom podcast, an interview with Jim Garner, Chief Executive Officer of AllerGenis . AllerGenis’ mission is to develop precision diagnostic solutions that can help healthcare providers better assess and manage the well-being of millions of food allergy patients. Specializing in immunology and bioinformatics, they have created a highly multiplexed analytical platform to address the limitations of current food allergy diagnostic tests.
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Topics Discussed in this Episode:
- 21st century diagnostic methods that allow us to look at the antibody response to proteins that cause allergic reactions
- Without having to do a food challenge, you can find the same information with a drop of blood – this means you can bypass having a patient having to ingest the protein to gauge the response (hives, shortness of breath, cardiac and Gastrointestinal issues – aka an allergic reaction)
- Statistically these tests are the same as doing an oral food challenge and they are reproducible results providing a more objective measure without the stress and anxiety of doing an oral food challenge
- These diagnostics will tell you a) what you’re allergic to and b) what to do next
- If a test comes back negative, the likelihood of the child having a reaction is low and so the doctor can safely do an oral food challenge
- This also prevents people from unnecessarily avoiding foods that they could safely ingest foods
- These tests take the risks and guess work out of whether there is going to be a reaction
- Introducing allergenic foods to children at a young age and the threat of avoidance and putting kids at risk for developing allergies
Jim’s Links:
https://www.allergenis.com/technology
https://www.allergenis.com/resources
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.06.19.20136002v1
https://www.jacionline.org/article/S0091-6749(18)31567-7/abstract
That is Episode 11! Thanks for listening! Be sure to subscribe to the podcast if you haven’t already– there are so many amazing interviews and topics coming out in the next few weeks that I don’t want you to miss including:
- TIP vs OIT
- Daniel Kelly from May Contain
- Heather Brooker, Emmy Award-winning journalist and host of the Motherhood in Hollywood Podcast
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