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Feb 03 Fri

National Peanut Butter Day No Picnic for Kids with Peanut Allergies

(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...
2/3/2012 9:44 AM   Disabled World   Like   Read   Share


Feb 01 Wed

Birth order effect on childhood food allergy

(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


Jan 17 Tue

Determinants of Food Allergy

(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


Jan 17 Tue

Beyond Skin Testing: State of the Art and New Horizons in Food Allergy Diagnostic Testing

(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


Jan 17 Tue

Oral Immunotherapy and Anti-IgE Antibody-Adjunctive Treatment for Food Allergy

(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


Jan 13 Fri

Immunotherapy with oligomannose‐coated liposomes ameliorates allergic symptoms in a murine food allergy model

(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...
1/13/2012 4:14 AM   Allergy   Like   Read   Share


Jan 11 Wed

Quality of life measures for food allergy

(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


Jan 08 Sun

Revision of Immunopathogenesis and Laboratory Interpretation for Food Allergy in Atopic Dermatitis

(SUMMARY) (Source: Inflammation)
1/8/2012 4:21 AM   Inflammation   Like   Read   Share


Jan 05 Thu

The writing is on the wall: School kids need access to EpiPens

(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...
1/5/2012 10:00 PM   Health Facts and Fears   Like   Read   Share


Dec 29 Thu

Allergy Testing in Childhood: Using Allergen-Specific IgE Tests

(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....
12/29/2011 10:00 PM   PEDIATRICS   Like   Read   Share


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