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Detect Food Allergy Online

by Savitha C Muppala on Mar 6 2011 4:27 PM

An online diagnostic calculator called as the ‘Cork-Southampton calculator’ promises 96% accuracy in detecting food allergy and may soon replace conventional ways.

 Detect Food Allergy Online
An Irish research team has developed an online diagnostic calculator called as the ‘Cork-Southampton calculator’, which promises 96% accuracy in detecting food allergy and may soon replace conventional methods of ascertaining food allergy. The results of the online allergy calculator is  available in a few seconds.
This  tool is the brain-child of Dr.Audrey Dunn Galvin and Professor Jonathan Hourihane of the Department of Paediatrics and Child Health , University College Cork. The specialists have used a mathematical model to reveal children's vulnerabililty to common food allergens - peanuts, eggs and milk, and is a shot in the arm for Doctors to treat children with food allergy.



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