MACCS Medical Group

28/05/2025

A really helpful and insightful story from Harry about travelling with food allergies—thank you for sharing this, Allergy & Anaphylaxis Australia!

02/04/2025

👩‍⚕️👶👧🧑‍🎓 A busy Monday morning at with children aged 1 to 17 undergoing medically supervised food and drug challenges.

🥜🌰 Today’s allergens included peanut, cashew, hazelnut, and pistachio — plus a cephalexin (antibiotic) drug challenge 💊.

✅ Food challenges are safe and carefully supervised by allergy specialists. They remain the gold standard for diagnosing food allergies and are often the key to discovering if a child has outgrown their allergy — opening up new foods and more freedom.

💛 It’s always a privilege to support families on their journey with food allergy — one bite (or sip!) at a time.

26/03/2025

MACCS is pleased to now offer Peanut Oral Immunotherapy (OIT) for children aged 3 and younger. To discuss the program with one of our allergy specialists, email us with a GP referral to admin@maccsmedicalgroup.com.au. 🥜

20/03/2025

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08/10/2021

Brilliant! Here are clear, practical and evidence-based guidelines by the for how schools and childcare can help reduce the risk of anaphylaxis for children with food allergy.

It is with great pleasure that today we launch the Best practice guidelines for anaphylaxis prevention and management in schools and children’s education and care (CEC) services.

The new guidelines provide consistent, evidence-based, best practice guidance for staff in schools and CEC, and parents, and will help reduce the risk of anaphylaxis in these settings while supporting children to participate in the full range of activities.

Thank you to the many stakeholders, school and CEC service staff and parents/guardians who have engaged with us to help develop the Guidelines and supporting resources.

For more information and to download the Best Practice Guidelines visit: https://www.allergyaware.org.au/

10/12/2020

Hayfever (allergic rhinitis) can be troublesome and impact our daily function. Here’s a terrific video from 250k on how to better manage hayfever this spring! Do tag a friend or family who might find this helpful.

04/12/2020

What is it like to have a skin prick test? This is a simple, well-tolerated and commonly performed allergy test for diagnosing immediate (dangerous) food allergies. We hope this video is helpful in describing what to expect, and how to prepare children for the test. Please let us know in the comments anything else you want to know about skin prick testing, and do share this with friends and family!

26/05/2020

Terrific news - recruitment for this worldwide peanut patch trial, EPITOPE, has reopened.

Do you have a child aged 1-3 years old with peanut allergy? Our colleagues at the Murdoch Childrens Research Institute (MCRI) now have more spots available for participants to join the Viaskin EPITOPE peanut patch study.

This is a global Phase III study where participants are recruited across North America (USA & Canada), Ireland and Australia. To read more about EPITOPE and the peanut patch trial, seehttps://www.dbv-technologies.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/4190-pr_epitope_fpi-1.pdf and https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT03211247?term=Epitope&cond=Peanut+Allergy.

Please email sasha.odoi@mcri.edu.au to hear more about your child’s eligibility to take part in this study - places are limited. And do remember to share this with friends or family who might be interested. 🥜

20/02/2020

IMPORTANT INFORMATION from Allergy & Anaphylaxis Australia to share regarding the EpiPen shortage

Parents of children with allergies say they cannot get their hands on an EpiPen Junior, despite the distributor having "an abundance of stock".

30/01/2020

What happens during an oral food challenge? Here are the most commonly asked questions, answered. Help us share this with friends and families who may find this helpful.

30/01/2020

What happens during an oral food challenge? Here are the most commonly asked questions, answered. Help us share this with friends and families who may find this helpful.

02/12/2019

Terrific resource here from Allergy & Anaphylaxis Australia on how to help your child with food allergy to transition to school. The three vital steps are to: 1) Communicate, 2) Plan and 3) Educate. Do share this with friends and families who may find this helpful.