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(SUMMARY) National Peanut Butter Day is No Picnic for Kids with Peanut Allergies, But Educating Our Kids About Food Allergies Can Be - With over six million children in the US now facing peanut and other food allergies, food allergy education in schools is a...
(SUMMARY) To cite this article: Kusunoki T, Mukaida K, Morimoto T, Sakuma M, Yasumi T, Nishikomori R, Heike T. Birth order effect on childhood food allergy. Pediatric Allergy Immunology 2012: DOI: 10.1111/j.1399‐3038.2011.01246.x.AbstractHigher birth order is...
2/1/2012 10:00 PM Pediatric Allergy and Immunology Like Read Share
(SUMMARY) Food allergy is an emerging epidemic in the United States and the Western world. The determination of factors that make certain foods allergenic is still not clearly understood. Only a tiny fraction of thousands of proteins and other molecules is...
1/17/2012 4:16 AM Immunology and Allergy Clinics o Like Read Share
(SUMMARY) This article reviews several promising novel approaches for the diagnosis of food allergy, such as new molecular diagnostic technologies and functional assays, along with their potential clinical applications. (Source: Immunology and Allergy Clinics...
1/17/2012 4:16 AM Immunology and Allergy Clinics o Like Read Share
(SUMMARY) One of the most promising therapies for food allergy is oral immunotherapy (OIT), in which small amounts of allergen are administered in increasing amounts, with the immediate goal of desensitization and the long-term goal of tolerance. However,...
1/17/2012 4:16 AM Immunology and Allergy Clinics o Like Read Share
(SUMMARY) Conclusion:These results suggest that intranasal immunization with Ag‐encased OML may be an effective immunotherapy for food allergies, as it induces a subset of regulatory CD8+T cells as well as CD4+ CD25+ Foxp3+T cell and modulates humoral immune...
(SUMMARY) SummaryFood allergy has become an emerging health problem in Western societies. Although food allergy is characterized by a relatively low mortality and an almost continual absence of physical symptoms, food allergic patients are continually...
1/11/2012 10:00 PM Clinical and Experimental Allerg Like Read Share
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(SUMMARY) About 8 percent of kids have to cope with a food allergy a reality brought to the fore this week by the death of a seven-year-old girl in Virginia, whose heart stopped due to an allergic reaction brought on by a peanut. (Source: Health Facts and...
(SUMMARY) A variety of triggers can induce common pediatric allergic diseases which include asthma, allergic rhinitis, atopic dermatitis, food allergy, and anaphylaxis. Allergy testing serves to confirm an allergic trigger suspected on the basis of history....
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