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Tag: American Academy of Allergy Asthma & Immunology

  • Blood work can be a problem

    Normally, I like to include lab studies for evaluation of patients with chronic infections.  It’s very important to find out if your body can make the right amount of antibodies to fight infection.  But…there’s always the exception.  In this case, IgA can be absent from your bloodstream and not cause a problem because it’s gone. …

  • How You Can Be an Expert

    I want to be an expert.  Always have and always will, but now it’s a little easier than 30 years ago.  In fact, all you need now to become an expert is a little fame, a published book or memoir, and Shazam!  you’re an authority on any subject you want to write on.  So where’s…

  • Oral food challenge to peanut

    Food allergy is a very common and even popular disease to have.  This results in some predictable patient behavior such as: 1.       I have allergy based on a blood test only, and I tolerate this food all the time.  This may not be allergy at all, but simply a condition called “asymptomatic hypersensitivity”.  Relax, some…