The National Allergy Strategy has partnered with Allergy & Anaphylaxis Australia to deliver a series of webinars to help parents and guardians manage food allergies and the risk of anaphylaxis in children’s education and care services, primary and secondary schools and camps.
The webinar includes a short presentation from Dr Preeti Joshi, Paediatric Clinical Immunology/Allergy Specialist, and Sally Voukelatos, Health Management Educator, from Allergy & Anaphylaxis Australia.
The presentations are followed by a Q&A session.
Webinar Details
Webinar recorded: 17 June 2022
Questions
- At what age do you think kids are old enough to carry their device with them in their bag? And how do we manage this issue of the OSHC service wanting to have one of the adrenaline injector devices left with them? (watch at 40:13)
- Are OSHC centers required to have general use adrenaline injectors, and do they have to have adrenaline injectors in different doses? (watch at 46:43)
- My son had an anaphylactic reaction recently at his childcare service. He is cow’s milk allergic and they served him cheese containing cow’s milk. How am I able to report this? Is this through the manner that Sally mentioned? (watch at 50:03)
- I think OSHC Services are a bit more challenging than other childcare services because you’ve got children coming from different schools and sometimes, they’re bringing their own food. From a parent’s perspectives that can be a little bit more challenging. Does this mean that parents educating their children is perhaps more important in this setting than it might be if they’re attending a regular daycare service? (watch at 52:05)
Presenter
Dr Preeti Joshi
MBBS DCH PhD FRACP
Allergy/Clinical Immunology – Paediatric NSW
Dr Joshi is a staff specialist in Allergy and Immunology at the Children’s Hospital Westmead. She has over 12 years experience as a Paediatric Immunologist both at the hospital and is private practice. Her clinical interests lie in the diagnosis and management of children with atopic disorders with a particular focus on food allergy. Her current research interests include the diagnosis and management of egg allergy as well as the epidemiology of food protein induced enterocolitis and eosinophilic oesophagitis in childhood.
Dr Joshi graduated with honours from the University of Sydney before completing her specialist paediatric training and immunology training in NSW. Dr Joshi’s PhD (NHMRC postgraduate medical scholarship) examines immune responses to viruses in infancy in relation to the subsequent development of atopy. She undertook a postdoctoral fellowship at the Mt Sinai Medical Centre (Jaffe Food Allergy Institute) in New York under the supervision of Professor Hugh Sampson.
She is currently a co-investigator of BEAT (Beating Egg Allergy Trial), a randomized controlled trail of 300 infants investigating primary prevention of egg allergy.
She has authored multiple peer reviewed publications and has co-authored 2 books on the management of food allergy for parents and carers.
Dr Joshi is an active member of several Australasian Society Allergy and Clinical Immunology expert groups including the NSW anaphylaxis working party and the Paediatric subcommittee thus playing an active role in the development of guidelines and educational resources for the management of allergy in Australia.
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