Archive for the ‘Developing Allergy’ Category

Animals and Asthma

 
 
Animals and Asthma- to have or to have not?
 
 
 
   
  Photo by Bethany King
                                            
Children love animals. Parents may or may not love animals but they clearly love their children. Some parents have had the animals longer than they have had their children (surrogates?). So how does the world of asthma and allergy deal with the pet [...]

July 16, 2009   Posted in: Animal Allergy, Asthma, Developing Allergy  5 Comments

Summary and Review of the article “Update on allergies in pregnancy, lactation, and early childhood” by I. Pali-Scholl, H. Renz, and E. Jensen-Jarolim (Journal of Allergy Clinical Immunology 2009;123:1012-21).

 
One of the most commonly asked questions by young families is how to possibly prevent the development of allergy in the next child. In fact you can see such a question asked on my last post. This is an agonizing question for a pediatric allergist. The specialty of pediatrics and of allergy is very focused [...]

June 28, 2009  Tags: ,   Posted in: Developing Allergy, Preventing Allergy  No Comments