Category: Allergy 101
Eating Peanuts Early Can Prevent Allergies
Babies should be introduced to peanuts as early as 4 to 6 months of age to prevent allergies, according to new guidelines from the National Institute ...
Gene Therapy Study Protects Against Peanut Allergy
A new gene therapy developed by scientists at Weill Cornell Medicine could eventually prevent the life-threatening effects of peanut allergy with just ...
Highschool Freshman’s Video Teaches Everything You Need To Know About Allergic Reactions in 5 minutes [VIDEO]
Do you know what happens inside your body when you have an allergic reaction, or what the difference is between an allergy and an intolerance? Researc ...
How To Handle Food Allergy Bullying
With kids back in school, we cannot reiterate enough how crucial and how imperative it is that food allergy bullying is STOPPED, and children know how ...
New Study Finds Newborn Gut Microbiome Can Predict Allergy and Asthma
New research from the University of California, San Francisco has shown that a rare abnormality in the makeup of germs in a newborn's gut could triple ...
Things to Consider Before Entering a Food Allergy Clinical Trial
Experimental Treatments and Trials: Is Hope the Only Option?
Recently, some parents I know were discussing experimental treatment for food allergy, a ...
Red Meat Allergy From Tick Bites Increasing
Cases of the Alpha-gal Syndrome, known as a red meat allergy linked to tick bites, are increasing. The Vanderbilt’s Asthma, Sinus and Allergy Program ...
LEAP Study Leads to New Peanut Products For Babies
The announcement of the LEAP-ON study results on March 8, 2016 has come with a wave of new peanut products marketed towards parents wanting to introdu ...
LEAP-ON Study Results: Preventing Peanut Allergies in Infants
On March 4, 2016, the results of LEAP-ON, Phase 2 of the Immune Tolerance Network's LEAP study (Learning Early About Peanut Allergy) was presented at ...