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Consultant Profile

Dr Michel Erlewyn-Lajeunesse

Name:
Dr Michel Erlewyn-Lajeunesse BSc, MBBS, DM, FRCPCH
Practising at:
Spire Southampton Hospital
Specialties:
  • Allergy
    • Paediatric medicine
      • Allergy
    Special clinical interests:
    • Childrens allergies
    • Food allergy
    • Asthma
    • Eczema
    • Hay fever
    • Recurrent urticaria
    • Recurrent fever or infections
    • HIV
    • Vaccine reactions 
    Research interests:
    • Children’s allergy and asthma
    • Vaccine safety
    Current NHS and /or university posts:

    Consultant in Paediatric Allergy
    Southampton University Hospitals NHS Trust

    Year of first medical qualification:
    1995
    Current membership(s) of professional, national and regional bodies:
    • British Society of Allergy and Clinical Immunology
    • European Society for Paediatric Infectious Diseases
    • Children’s HIV Association
    • British Paediatric Allergy Immunology and Infection Group
    • UK Paediatric Vaccine Group
     
    Contact Details 
    Private secretary:
    Christine Dyche
    Private secretary telephone number:
    0845 116 3158
    Private secretary fax:
    0845 116 3159
    Private secretary email address:
     
    Background Information 
    Professional profile:

    Dr Erlewyn-Lajeunesse is a UK trained consultant paediatric immunologist. HIs practice involves the care of all forms of children’s allergy including food, animal, pollen, drug, and insect venom reactions, asthma, eczema and hay fever. He also treats children with recurrent infections, fevers and Urticaria. Dr Erlewyn-Lajeunesse can offer allergy skin testing, which will often give a diagnosis in clinic. Privately he consults exclusively at Spire Southampton Hospital.   

    In November 2009 Dr Erlewyn-Lajeunesse carried out allergy testing for a child who was being filmed as part of Channel 4's Embarrassing Bodies kids special.

         

    Personal profile:

    Despite his French Canadian name, Dr Erlewyn-Lajeunesse was born in the UK and trained in medicine at Imperial College London (St Mary’s Hospital). He wrote his doctorate on preschool children’s asthma at Southampton University. He has also undertaken training in complementary and alternative medicine, and has a sympathetic approach to these treatment modalities – although his practice is entirely conventional. He sits on the governmental regulatory board for the safety of homeopathic medicines. He has wide ranging research interests in children’s allergies and vaccine safety and is an Honorary Senior Lecturer at the University of Southampton.

     

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    Dr Michel Erlewyn-Lajeunesse

    Dr Erlewyn-Lajeunesse recently appeared on the Embarrassing Bodies Kids special on Friday 14th May 2010.

    Dr Lajeunesse tested three year old Charlie for allergies. Find out more from the Embarrassing Bodies website.

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