Tag: Food allergy
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Pork-Cat connection
Pork-cat syndrome a rare (but real!) allergy By Cari Nierenberg Allergic to cats? Then beware of pigs — or at least, the meat that comes from these sty-dwelling swine. A small number of people who are sensitive to felines may also get allergic reactions to eating pork.
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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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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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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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Top 10 Allergy & Clinical Immunology Articles of 2011
From Medscape Allergy & Immunology by Marrecca Fiore Introduction Ever wonder what other allergists are reading? After sorting through the long list of articles published on Medscape during the past year, it seems our member audience of allergists and clinical immunologists was most interested in: Food allergies Influenza Itching The top 10 articles list is comprised…
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Are we harming ourselves?
“I’m allergic to everything!” Ah, you’re smiling. Is this really possible to be allergic to multiple drugs? Evidently this is true according to a recent study published in Ann Allergy Asthma Immunol 108 (2012) 88–93. Multiple drug intolerance syndrome: prevalence, clinical characteristics, and management byEric Macy, MD and Ngoc J. Ho, PhD. So what is…
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News You Can Use on Food Allergy
So how much can we hear about food allergy? As unfortunate as it is to have a severe food allergy, what bothers patients most is lack of reliable information about their condition and the lack of concern about a potentially fatal reaction. Just look on Facebook to find hundreds of stories about the tragedy of food allergy or…
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The year in review (2011)
Advances in allergic skin disease, anaphylaxis, and hypersensitivity reactions to foods, drugs, and insects in 2011. J Allergy Clin Immunol 2012;129:76-85 So what’s new in allergy to foods, drugs, and insects? I promise, I won’t bore you with basic science facts useful only for allergy boards, but here’s some facts for you to digest with the…
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