MAIN TOPICS

• Allergy as a skin barrier disease
• Role of early allergy in childhood asthma development
• Anaphylaxis in children and infants
• Inflammation as a systemic problem
• Early allergy vs lung function development
• Anti-inflammatory treatment of airways: current and future
• Role of LABA and Leukotriene-receptor antagonist in
• childhood asthma
• Asthma diagnosis: still a challenge?
• Clinical phenotypes in childhood asthma
• Nose and lung interactions: importance of nose when
• treating asthma
• Imaging the airway
• Insights in oral tolerance
• Food allergy: towards clinical practice guidelines
• Cow’s milk allergy prevention and treatment
• Atopic eczema in children: novel approaches
• Immunotherapy in children: should we use SCIT or SLIT?
• High vs low doses?
• Novel forms of immunotherapy
• Drug allergy in children

PRACTICAL COURSES

• How can we choose the most appropriate milk substitute in cows milk allergic children?
• How to give immunotherapy
• How to perform oral food challenge
• Obtaining good lung function in young children
• Training patients and their families to use the self-injectable adrenaline
• Using an inhaler correctly
• How to manage problematic asthma in children

SCIENTIFIC SECRETARIAT

Antonella Muraro M.D., Ph.D.
Food Allergy Centre, Veneto Region,
Department of Pediatrics, Padua General University Hospital
Via Giustiniani 3 - 35128 - Padova Italy
email: eaaci-venice2009@pediatria.unipd.it

ORGANIZING SECRETARIAT

Via Makallè, 75 - 35138 Padova - ITALY
Ph. +39 049 8729511               +39 049 8729511      

Fax +39 049 8729512
E-mail: eaacipediatrics-venice2009@keycongress.com
Website: www.eaacipediatrics-venice2009.org