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Category: Food allergy

  • Give Me Your Stories About Food Allergy

    Several months ago, I asked you what was missing from your treatment of #allergy.  To my surprise, 50% of respondents wanted more information on food allergy, compared to only 36% who wanted cheaper medications for their #asthma. So I listened and here are some stories I find interesting about food allergy. Please share your stories…

  • Eliminating FODMAP foods temporarily can be helpful.

    This web site has a very simple method for food elimination/challenge diet that can be applied to ANY #food intolerance.

  • Dear Doctor…..

                                  Dear Doctor, Thanks for all your help with my #allergies, but I have a bone to pick with you.  A few minutes into my visit and you’re talking about “rhinitis” and “IgE” and “desensitization”.  By the time my brain catches up with you, our visit is over and I don’t feel like I really…

  • Food allergy “testing” is usually a bad idea

    Originally posted on The Pediatric Insider: The Pediatric Insider © 2015 Roy Benaroch, MD People like tests. You get numbers, and maybe a printout, and there’s science and blood and things just feels more… serious, when testing is done. You can picture Marcus Welby  (or perhaps a more modern physician), looking solemn, declaring “We’d better…

  • Is Milk Allergy Desensitization Ready for Prime Time?

    This article is in press and will be published in Annals from the College of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology next month.  I thought the study is very interesting given the “push” for oral desensitization.  I just returned from the AAAAI annual meeting and it appears that patients with food allergy can become “desensitized” or cured,…

  • The Problem with Foods–foods that make me want to throw up

     http://www.halohealth.com/collections/genetic-testing/products/food-allergy-test We all want to be realllllly healthy and it makes sense that what we eat is a place to start. Right? Well not so fast.  Jenny (isn’t her real name to protect the innocent) went to her health club to lose some weight and get into shape.  Jenny had always struggled with being overweight…

  • Camp Weekaneatit for Kids with Celiac

    Originally posted on gutsandgrowth: From my colleague, Jeff Lewis:  “The camp is called Camp Weekaneatit, it is July 13 to July 18, overnight camp, strictly gluten-free so the kids can eat what they want without having to worry.  Its part of Camp Twin Lakes – an organization that hosts tons of medical camps.  We have kids…

  • Seafood Allergies Get Worse Over Time

    Originally posted on 123MyMD: Seafood allergy is a major problem because as it worsens in someone’s life, the seafood allergy, actually, can become a problem that can be even life-threatening. Now, initially, people who have problems with seafood, actually, suffer difficulties which are more like stomach irritation, diarrhea, vomiting. But as the seafood allergy worsens,…

  • The Government Gets It Right!

    Food allergy is a constant source of anxiety to parents of children who could in fact die or suffer a severe reaction to foods.  Believe it or not, the government has done a nice job with information pertaining to public safety, in this case, food allergy in schools.  In case you think I’m kidding about…

  • Food Allergies and Potlucks – Should I stay or should I go?

    Always be careful when you didn’t make the food!