Tag: Allergies
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Spring is Right Around the Corner!
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USA Today just can’t stop talking about allergies!
Want to know how to improve your make-up skills during allergy season? Look at this YouTube: Here’s the article link. Early allergy in Tulsa! Look at Tulsa which is in the “high” range for this Spring’s pollen count!
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Have We Lost our CommonSense?
Schools are quite paranoid about giving any medication on their watch. The liability for giving sunscreen when you don’t need it? Zero. This is very similar to the use of epinephrine in a school aged child with food allergy. You certainly don’t want to withhold epi and risk anaphylaxis or death, when the risk of…
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Are We Beating a Dead Horse?
Ok, another study about the dangers of food allergy (yesterday in USA Today). You would think the occurrence of food allergy to KNOWN allergens (peanut & milk) would decrease given all the attention given to accidental ingestion. Evidently, this is not the case. Explanations? Maybe we’re afraid of giving epinephrine. In my personal experience, giving epinephrine is…
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Wedding Ring allergy
Think you can be allergic to your spouse? Just this week in the clinic, a middle-aged woman presents with a rash found only when she wears her wedding ring. No other jewellery gives her problems except for the ring when worn > 2-3 days. Although nickel allergy can cause this scenario, this woman probably has…
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Usefulness of Omalizumab for treatment of asthma
Insurance is now a part of our lives, especially health care providers. Expensive medications such as omalizumab (Xolair™) are rarely approved for use unless patients and physicians complete an extensive application for benefits. Here is a list of medical articles that support the use of Omalizumab in the treatment of asthma: 1. Storms, W, et al. …
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Here’s a book on food allergies!
My transcriptionists are not only good at what they do, but when they hear me talk as much as I do, it’s almost family. I am reading a book called, Don’t Kill the Birthday Girl by Sandra Beasley, and I thought of you. It’s a memoir about the author’s life with food allergies, what it…
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Maybe this checklist would work for Asthma?
Checklist for hospital discharge
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On Your Mark….Get Set….
Today marks the start of the National meeting for the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma, & Immunology in Orlando, FL. The Academy website is www.aaaai.org. Over 6,000+ attendees from all over the world to present the most recent advances in allergy and asthma. Yours truly even has an abstract on the correlation between BMI and…
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What is Available for Milk Allergy?
Sublingual and Oral Immunotherapy Shows Promise for Milk Allergy I’ll summarize the most recent advances in treating milk allergy from the article below. Why is our current therapy not enough? Guess what happens when a patient allergic to milk suffers from accidental ingestion? Anaphylaxis! Why not cure the disease–Johns Hopkins is a long way from Oklahoma,…
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