Archive for the ‘Peanut Allergy’ Category
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
Another Resolved Peanut Allergy
The events of today come with very mixed emotion. There is great joy in Griffin’s household – the fear and trepidation regarding peanut allergy has been resolved. The young man underwent a successful peanut challenge today. He will now eat peanut products 3 or more days per week to stay tolerant to peanuts. We used [...]
October 3, 2012
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Tags: Food Allergies, Food Allergy Testing, Peanut Allergy · Posted in: Food Allergies, Peanut Allergy
Exposures to Peanuts
Inadvertent exposures in children with peanut allergy This is an interesting article. This theme has appeared in the literature previously, here it is done on a much grander scale with over 1000 children in the study. For those families/patients who start on this scary journey of peanut allergy an article like this gives an overall [...]
April 18, 2012
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Tags: Accidental Peanut Exposures, Food Allergy, peanut, Peanut Allergy · Posted in: Allergy in Children, Article Review, Food Allergies, Interesting articles, Peanut Allergy, Pediatric Allergy
Indy’s Child- Peanut Allergy Post
 An article, Understanding Peanut Allergies: Considering the factors before you become peanut-free, appears in this month’s Indy’s Child. I was interviewed for a program called ‘Riley Speaks’ and this was a topic of great interest. A few things to add. I prefer the use of the term ‘peanut-safe’ in deference to ‘peanut-free’. The terms safe and [...]
December 11, 2011
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Posted in: Allergies, Allergy in Children, Food Allergies, Interesting articles, Peanut Allergy, Pediatric Allergy
Food Allergy Epidemiology- Prevalence, Severity, Distribution, and Disparities. A Review.
Food Allergy Epidemiology in the United States The July issue of Pediatrics has an article entitled, ‘The Prevalence, Severity, and Distribution of Childhood Food Allergy in the United States’ by R S Gupta, E E Springston, M R Warrier, B Smith, R Kumar, J Pongracic, and J L Holl. The bottom line from this work [...]
July 28, 2011
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Tags: Food Allergies, Food Allergy Epidemiology · Posted in: Allergies, Allergy in Children, Food Allergies, Peanut Allergy
Using the Phadia Microarray for Peanut Allergy-Wishing it was readily available.
Yesterday (March 28, 2010), I saw a young lady of 4 years in our allergy clinic at the Riley Outpatient Center for concerns about peanut allergy. She had one of those infrequently seen presentations, at least infrequent in my pediatric peanut population. Her symptoms were most consistent with the oral allergy syndrome. The symptoms were [...]
March 29, 2011
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Tags: Food Allergies, Peanut Allergy, Phadia · Posted in: Allergy Testing, Food Allergies, Peanut Allergy, Phadia Allergy Tests
Peanuts and Pregnancy-A risk factor?
Maternal consumption of peanut during pregnancy is associated with peanut sensitization in atopic infants. S. Sicherer, R. Wood, D. Stablein, R. Lindblad, W. Burks, A. Liu, S. Jones, D. Fleischer, D. Leung, and H. Sampson. JACI 2010 in press How does peanut sensitization occur? How can we prevent peanut sensitization? What are the risk factors [...]
November 5, 2010
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Tags: Food Allergy, peanut, Peanuts and pregnancy · Posted in: Food Allergies, Peanut Allergy, Uncategorized
Peanut Allergy Misdiagnosed in 2 out of 3 Cases ?
 Attacking Peanut Allergy  Peanut Allergy Misdiagnosed in 2 out of 3 Cases  This title from Medical News Today April 13, 2010 caught my attention. It has always been a mystery as to why peanut allergy has increased dramatically over the years. This publication may shed some light on that mystery.   There are [...]
April 25, 2010
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Tags: Food Allergy, Food Allergy Support Group, Food Allergy Testing, peanut, Peanut Allergy · Posted in: Allergies, Allergy Testing, Food Allergies, Peanut Allergy, Phadia Allergy Tests
