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Atopy patch test is a useful tool in the diagnostic work up of children with food-allergy-related gastrointestinal symptoms. The diagnostic accuracy of ATP was higher with fresh food than with commercial food extracts.

Background: There exists a wide variation in the reported incidence of coeliac disease in recent decades. We aimed to evaluate the incidence rate of coeliac diagnoses performed in an Italian region, Campania, between 2011 and 2013 and its variation therein. Methods: All coeliac diagnoses made from 2011 to 2013 and registered within the Campania coeliac disease register (CeliacDB) were identified. Incidence rates were analysed by sex, age and province of residence, with a Poisson model fitted to determine incidence rate ratios.

Foreign body ingestion in children is a challenging clinical scenario.Children may be completely asymptomatic or present with overt symptoms, including drooling, dysphagia, chest pain and feeding refusal. [1][2][3] The majority of ingested foreign bodies passes spontaneously along the gastrointestinal (GI) tract and causes no harm nor symptoms. Nevertheless, in some circumstances foreign bodies may cause important morbidity or even mortality, due to GI bleeding, ulceration, perforation, mediastinitis, peritonitis, abscess or fistula formation. Moreover, in case of vomiting, foreign bodies may also be inhaled, causing airway obstruction. 3

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