Pediatricians now recommend introducing peanut-based foods to infants before their first birthday to prevent peanut allergies, according to a report from the American Academy of Pediatrics.
Mar 22, 2019
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(HealthDay)—New parents worry about a lot of things, but the American Academy of Pediatrics says one thing they can cross off that list is concern about giving high-allergy foods too early in life.
Mar 18, 2019
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One in three people is plagued by an allergy triggered by food, fungi, house dust mites or on a seasonal basis due to pollen. The latter group is the largest: Around 800 million people worldwide suffer from some form of allergy ...
Mar 6, 2019
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The detection of allergies to antibiotics is currently conducted with a series of in vivo skin tests that are invasive and therefore entail inconveniences. Although in vitro methods do exist, they are not sufficiently sensitive, ...
Feb 27, 2019
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You may think you have an allergy to penicillin, but you probably don't.
Feb 25, 2019
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Until now it has been believed that in order for a tick to trigger an allergic immune response to alpha-gal in humans, the tick would need to have recently fed on the alpha-gal-rich blood of a mammal. New research from the ...
Feb 23, 2019
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Promising new therapies for food allergies are on the horizon, including an experimental immunotherapy awaiting federal approval that enables people who are very allergic to eat peanut protein without suffering serious side ...
Feb 23, 2019
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Delivering "exposure therapy" via a patch to help curb peanut allergy in kids is somewhat effective, but not as good as delivering the tiny amounts of peanut by mouth, new research shows.
Feb 22, 2019
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Atopic dermatitis, a common inflammatory skin condition also known as allergic eczema, affects nearly 20 percent of children, 30 percent of whom also have food allergies. Scientists have now found that children with both ...
Feb 20, 2019
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Like many other medical conditions, the mechanism of multiple sclerosis remains an enigma—a puzzle composed of complex genetic and environmental factors. A key piece to this puzzle is the immune system, which is also responsible ...
Feb 19, 2019
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