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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
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
