Tag: Allergy
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How Can You Resist?
Our environment is so important for treating and controlling allergy. The holiday season lets many triggers into our homes that normally wouldn’t be allowed. Does your doctor ever make you mad by suggesting you remove a pet from your home because of allergy? Granted, it doesn’t matter what clinical research says when your pet is…
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Stay Up to Date with Food Allergy
I always enjoy National Medical Meetings….good food, meeting old friends, and yes, even learning something! The College of Allergy annual meeting was held in California just one week ago……and what are the hot topics this year? Here’s an article and interview from Medscape about this year’s meeting. Why am I interested? Dr. Portnoy was my mentor…
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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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Can I Prevent an Allergy Shot Reaction?
Risk Factors for Systemic Reactions to Allergen Immunotherapy Alfredo Iglesias-Cadarso; Pilar Hernández-Weigand Curr Opin Allergy Clin Immunol. 2011;11(6):579-585. Purpose of review To update safety information regarding allergen-specific immunotherapy (ASIT) in clinical practice and highlight the risk factors associated with the adverse reactions, product and each dose. Recent findings Efforts in recent years have focused on increasing our understanding of…
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What’s important about Asthma?
If you’re like me, your schedule can’t take another committment–how can you add one more task for asthma? Don’t neglect treatment for your asthma as proper attention now will save you time & money in the end. Anyone remember the Fram oil filter commercial….”you can pay me now or pay me later?” We’ll help you…
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Provocative study!
Or at least as sexy as you can get for a vitamin. Of all the vitamins out there, vitamin D has the most PROVEN benefit for allergies & asthma. Remember the cod liver oil? Of course you don’t….you’re not that old! Curr Opin Allergy Clin Immunol. 2012;12(1):13-17. © 2012 The importance of vitamin D as an essential nutrient is…
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How to Cure Milk Allergy!
Milk allergy may cause life-threatening anaphylaxis in children & adults. Wouldn’t it be nice if milk allergy could be “cured?” The adverse immune reactions to cow’s milk proteins can range from immediate, potentially life-threatening reactions to chronic disorders. Cow’s milk allergy (CMA) is the most common food allergy in infants and young children, affecting 2–3%…
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You’re Right, this has nothing to do with allergy, but it’s interesting.
In pediatric residency, saw lots of kids with foreign bodies in the esophagus. How do you tell if a battery or coin is in the “food tube” or windpipe? C’mon, give it a guess! Story from USA Today on swallow injuries
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