Allergy Society of South Africa
News and Events
Presentations
Thursday:• Sublingual Immunotherapy for Persistent Allergic Rhinitis
• Using control to taper stepped therapy
• Optimal aerosol delivery
• Practical Lung Function Testing
• AN APPROACH TO ANAPHYLAXIS – SHORT TO MEDIUM TERM MANAGEMENT
• Human Error Why things go wrong
Friday:
• INFLAMMATORY MARKERS IN THE 21ST CENTURY
• Emollients in Atopic Eczema
• Gastro-oesophageal reflux
• Eosinophil and non-IgE mediated GI illness
• Climate change and allergy in South Africa
• Bacterial intestinal diseasewho needs antibiotics?
• The Treatment of Food Allergy in Children
• Summary of talk on ALLERGY PRACTICE
• Allergens Unique to Southern Africa
• Ethical Issues in Treating Children with Allergies
Saturday:
• Hypoxic Ischaemic Encephalopathy Definitions
• Management of the Preschool wheezer
• STATUS EPILEPTICUS S.E. THAT’S BEING IN A STATE
• Pre-School Wheeze –New Directions
• SURVIVING SEPSIS
• Host genetics and susceptibility to mycobacterial diseases
• Asthma in pre-school children
• IMPROVING OUTCOMES IN TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY IN CHILDREN
• Management of Obesity
• Challenges of the Practice/Scope of PID in a Developing Country (Botswana)
• Allergy in South Africa:Up or down?
• Primary Immune Deficiencies among children in a country with high HIV infection Prevalence: Case Series study at a tertiary Centre.
• Necrotising enterocolitis -what’s the latest
• Iron deficiency revisited
Sunday:
• The burden of food allergy and the future
• ICD-10: The Road to Complianceand Other Challenges
• Remodelling our understanding of asthmaClinical, inflammatory and structural models
• My Somalia experience
• LABORATORY INVESTIGATION OF SUSPECTED PRIMARY IMMUNE DEFICIENCY