I have two new stories in the latest Pediatrics Nationwide:

• Updated Guidance on Oral Food Challenges: Oral food challenges are integral for allergists to diagnose food allergies. In 2009, the Adverse Reactions to Foods Committee within the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology published a report providing guidance for safely conducting an oral food challenge. Now, an update to this report has been published that expands on previously established guidance and provides more practical information for clinicians and patients.

• Advances in Neonatal GERD: Differentiating gastroesophageal reflux (GER), which is defined as the passage of gastric contents into the esophagus, from GER disease (GERD), when reflux is associated with troubling symptoms, remains a challenge in infants. Now, two new papers from Nationwide Children’s provide new evidence-based insights into diagnosing, classifying and treating GERD in infants.