Allergy & Asthma

How Our Allergy & Asthma Specialists Can Help

If your child has been struggling with allergies, you can rely on the expert care provided by the board-certified pediatric allergy and asthma specialists at Riley at IU Health. Our allergists in Indianapolis, Bloomington, and Carmel can help. They will work with you toward a correct diagnosis, identify your child’s allergy triggers and get you both back to a healthy and normal life.

Here’s why you should choose Riley at IU Health for your child’s allergy and asthma care:

• Pediatric allergy and asthma specialists. Our allergy and asthma doctors are board-certified in allergy and in pediatrics. Our doctors have extensive training in working with allergies in the kids. We recognize the unique ways allergic reactions affect children, which helps us take a child-specific approach. Our team often works with children whose allergies may not have been properly managed by other healthcare providers who do not have expertise in these conditions.
  
  
• Research network. Our Allergy & Asthma Department is part of the Food Allergy Research & Education (FARE) Clinical Network. We are one of a select number of sites across the country with this designation. This gives us access to clinical trials and innovative new research for the treatment of food allergies. Collaborating with the FARE Clinical Network also provides access to the latest food allergy research and education, and advanced treatments.
  
  
• Food allergy research programs. Our allergists are actively involved in research for emerging treatments for food allergies to potentially include both oral and "patch" (transcutaneous) immunotherapy. We are also using new methods of early exposure to allergenic food for babies at risk for food allergies.
  
  
• Food challenges. Some allergies, especially food allergies, can go away with time. Allergy testing for kids can help determine if the allergy has been outgrown or if it still is causing symptoms. Our doctors also work with families to safely introduce allergenic foods to babies who may be at risk of developing a food allergy.
  
  
• Peanut allergy registry. We house one of the largest registries of children with peanut allergies. This enables us to detect trends and patterns among children with peanut allergies, which could lead to new opportunities for treatment. We invite all patients with peanut allergies to join this registry.
  
  
• Pediatric asthma. Our allergists are involved with asthma at the clinical, community and research levels. We utilize special treatments for asthma that focus on treating the immune system and allergic components of asthma.

Current Research Studies

PrecISE, the Precision Interventions for Severe and/or Exacerbation-Prone Asthma Network, is a research study to understand how to treat different types of severe asthma. We are looking for people who have asthma attacks or frequent asthma symptoms. Everyone in the study will receive one or more study medicines for their severe asthma. This study is sponsored by the U.S. National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI). For more information about PrecISE, call us at 317.274.3380 or email us at iuasthma@iupui.edu.