Archive for the ‘Developing Allergy’ Category
Dichlorophenol Exposure and the Development of Allergy
This article appeared in the December issue of the Annals of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology and has gotten a significant amount of attention. I was interviewed by a local radio station about the article. When you interview for a newspaper or for radio, you are never sure what the end-product will be. The interviewee is [...]
December 12, 2012
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Tags: Developing Allergy, Developing food allergies, Food Allergies, Pesticides and Allergy · Posted in: Allergies, Article Review, Developing Allergy, Environment, Food Allergies, Interesting articles
Tree Nuts/Tree Nuts and Pregnancy: Avoid or not???
Should a mother eat peanuts or tree nuts during pregnancy? Will the avoidance of these foods help decrease the occurrence of peanut sensitization and allergic disease in the child? These are questions that we have struggled with for ages. This is an impossible question to answer definitively. How could you ever set-up an ‘experiment’ in [...]
October 10, 2012
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Tags: Food Allergies, peanut, Peanut Allergy, Peanuts and pregnancy, tree nuts and pregnancy · Posted in: Allergies, Allergy in Children, Developing Allergy, Food Allergies, Interesting articles, Peanut Allergy, Preventing Allergy
Allergy-Problems from a global perspective
The global problem of Allergy I came across a very interesting and powerful editorial that summarized many issues dealing with the worldwide problem of allergy. Allergy is a major health problem-clearly not in everyone and not in the majority of the population. Worldwide allergy affects 10-30% of people. As far as a single chronic clinical [...]
February 2, 2012
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Tags: Role of the allergist, Understanding allergy, What we know and do not know about allergy · Posted in: Allergies, Allergy as a gobal problem, Allergy in Children, Developing Allergy, Environment
The Allergic March- Children who start with Atopic Dermatitis and go on to have Asthma and Allergic Rhinitis
Redefining who goes on the Atopic March Does improvement management of atopic dermatitis influence the appearance of respiratory allergic diseases? A follow-up study. Clinical and Molecular Allergy 2010 8:8 Published June 30, 2010. Authors- G Ricci, A Patrizi, A Giannetti, A Dondi, B Bendandi, and M Masi. Background and purpose of the study Atopic dermatitis [...]
July 8, 2010
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Tags: Allergic Rhinitis, Asthma and Atopy, Atopic Dermatitis, The Allergic March · Posted in: Allergies, Asthma, Atopic Dermatitis, Developing Allergy, The Allergic March
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 [...]
July 16, 2009
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Posted in: Animal Allergy, Asthma, Developing Allergy
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 [...]
June 28, 2009
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Tags: Developing Allergy, Preventing Allergy · Posted in: Developing Allergy, Preventing Allergy
