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✨The Immunology & Allergy Nurse Group✨ ✨Maintaining links between Immunology & Allergy Nurses working in the UK🇬🇧 & Internationally🌎 ✨Sharing best practice✨

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✨It’s #AskAboutAsthma week ✨
❣️Do you routinely explain the differences in inhalers to your patients?
✨Or the drug compositions?
❣️We have airway models in our clinics to help explain inflammation vs. bronchoconstriction 🌬️

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✨#AskAboutAsthma Week 🌬️
✨Helping patients identify their #asthma triggers means that they can avoid them (or reduce their exposure if it’s environmental)
✨Exercise should not trigger asthma-if it does, a review is needed! ❣️

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✨It’s #AskAboutAsthma week ✨
❣️As HCPs we need to be mindful of the images we use in our comms & leaflets.
🌬️Promote images of CYP using preventer inhalers with a spacer (not spraying saba directly into mouth)
#RightInhalerImageCampaign

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It’s #AskAboutAsthma Week 🌬️
🫁 Fab Webinar today for HCPs in primary care
😮‍💨 Salbutamol (reliever) shouldn’t be prescribed in isolation as per new guidelines
🌬️Encourage pts to think of using the blue inhaler as ‘warning event’
🫁Emphasis on ICS for the prevention of attacks ❣️

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The fabulous @hayre.aman has created this #AllergyAwareness video with @swbhnhs 💙
https://t.co/b22yX40uRA
•She touches on the importance of non-drowsy antihistamines in the treatment of symptoms 🚫😴
•Nursing leadership at the forefront of public health messaging! #IANG

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And that's a wrap! 🎬
✨Thanks to all the delegates, speakers, charities; and all the sponsors - without whom we would not be able to put the event on.
✨Thank you to the hosts, Cambridge University Hospital and Royal Papworth Hospital.
✨Have a safe journey home 🚗🚂✈️

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The final session of the conference is Paediatric Allergy
✨Reflecting on the benefits & practical service considerations of offering Palforzia for children & young people with peanut allergy by Louise Young
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We welcome Brendan O’Sullivan, Consultant Pharmacist discussing CAR-T therapy
✨What a fantastic multidisciplinary line-up of speakers we have had this year
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Dr. Natasha Gunawardana, Allergy Consultant talks us through Allergic Rhinitis & the importance of correct nasal spray technique
👃🏻Think XFactor-point the nozzle towards the ear (not up the nose!) & DO NOT sniff! 🚫
👃🏻A very timely talk during hayfever season! 🌳
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Why #IANG coffee breaks are the best coffee breaks 🍩🍩🍩

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Consultant Immunologist Dr. Kumararatne delivering an interactive session on Secondary Antibody Deficiencies.
✨He compares the Immune System to a Hill Fort of protection
✨How beautiful are his slides of the Aurora Borealis captured over @cuh_nhs 💚💙 #IANG

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Dr. Catherine O Sullivan, Consultant Paediatric Immunologist, discusses the advances in Children’s Immunology care🧬
🦴HSCT (haematopoietic stem cell transplantation) in inborn errors of immunity & how to achieve the best outcomes for children & their families.
#FamilyCentredCare

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✨Nurse Consultant Emily Carne, IANG audit of safe staffing levels comparing centres UK wide
✨Do we have enough specialist nurses to meet the needs of the population?
✨A lovely follow on from yesterdays session on recruitment & training competencies for new Immunology Nurses

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Delighted to see Georgina Martin, Paediatric Allergy Dietitian @CUH_NHS
✨She discusses #Allergy Prevention though early introduction of allergenic foods🥜
✨She highlights the success of their weaning clinic to fasttrack 👶🏼👶🏾👶🏿 with eczema for timely food intro 👍🏻
@MScAllergy

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✨Always inspirational to learn from Nurse Consultant colleagues✨
✨Emily Carne, talks us through Malignancy in Immunodediciency
✨The power of Face-to-Face speaking with the wider MDT & other specialities such as gastroenterology when a referral is required 💪🏻
#PatientAdvocacy

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Dr. Catherine O Sullivan, Consultant Paediatric Immunology, on the advances in Children’s Immunology 🧬
🩸Severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID) added to newborn screening as a pilot🟰identified earlier for better outcomes & referred straight into immunology team 👍🏻

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Spirometry & Pulmonary Function Testing 🌬️🫁
🫁Percent Predicted or Standard Residual?!…
🫁What do you currently follow for interpretation in your practice?
✨Ian Harvey, Respiratory Physiologist explains about pulmonary function tests 🌬️ #IANG

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Learning through Case Study 📚
✨Dr. Odiri Eneje @RoyalPapworth walks us through a CT showing severe bronchiectasis on her talk on the respiratory management in Primary and Secondary Immunodediciency 🫁 #IANG

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The AGM is a valuable place for our members to share their views…
✨Last Year You Said…
•You wanted an Instagram & Facebook account…
✨Well here you go…
✨Tag us #IANG in your posts of the meeting! We’d love to see them…
✨ https://t.co/50oge0aI01

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Dr. O Sullivan (Paediatric Immunology) ✨The importance of age appropriate care in the family centred #HAE clinic
✨Comparisons such as a ‘pufferfish’ can be useful for younger children however they are also equipped to discuss school trips & future careers w young people 🐡