Guideline-Based Care of Infants With Food Protein-Induced Enterocolitis Syndrome
A Case-Based Program

Anna Nowak-Wegrzyn, MD, PhD, takes a case-based approach to identify and diagnose food protein-induced enterocolitis syndrome (FPIES) in infants and how to manage acute reactions. Dr. Nowak-Wegrzyn reviews common symptoms and food triggers and discusses how to distinguish FPIES from other major non-IgE-mediated food allergies. Owing to the critical importance of avoiding nutritional deficiencies in infants with FPIES, Dr. Nowak-Wegrzyn highlights how to optimize nutritional management while proceeding with an oral food challenge. An overview of new areas of research in FPIES, including the need for better food-challenge procedures, and the burden FPIES places on families, is also presented.

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  Anna Nowak-Wegrzyn, MD, PhD

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  Anna Nowak-Wegrzyn, MD, PhD, is a professor of pediatrics at NYU Grossman School of Medicine and director of the Pediatric Allergy Program at Hassenfeld Children’s Hospital at NYU Langone Health in New York City. She received her medical degree from Jagiellonian University in Poland, where she also completed an internship. Dr. Nowak-Wegrzyn completed pediatric residencies at Polish-American Children’s Hospital in Cracow, and the University of Maryland in Baltimore. She was awarded a fellowship in allergy and immunology at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Dr. Nowak-Wegrzyn received her PhD degree from the University of Warmia and Mazury in Poland. She is one of the few physicians, worldwide, who is board certified in pediatrics, allergy and immunology.

  Dr. Nowak-Wegrzyn has an international reputation as an expert in pediatric food allergies, anaphylaxis and food protein-induced enterocolitis syndrome (FPIES). She is the principal investigator for a number of clinical trials, and her research interests include egg and milk allergy, food-induced anaphylaxis treatment and risk factors, diagnostic issues in food allergy, and FPIES. Landmark research studies led by Dr. Nowak-Wegrzyn of baked milk and egg diets changed the standard of care for millions of milk- and egg-allergic children by allowing them to ingest these foods in baked products.

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  Anna Nowak-Wegrzyn, MD, PhD

  Professor of Pediatrics
  Director, Division of Allergy and Immunology
  Department of Pediatrics at NYU Grossman School of Medicine
  New York University Langone Health
  New York, New York