Tag: Health
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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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Improvement in survival without new drugs!
Truly remarkable how cancer survival has improved in children WITHOUT the addition of new drugs. There is so much more to health than just taking more medication! Allergy operates in the same way–good avoidance is first, followed by other aggressive medications. http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/story/2012-06-04/childhood-cancer-progress/55333892/1
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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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Is There Anything Vitamin D Doesn’t Cause?
Vitamin D Deficiency Linked to Vocal Cord Dysfunction Vitamin D deficiency is associated with exercise-induced paradoxical vocal cord dysfunction (VCD) in young athletes, according to research presented here at the World Allergy Organization XXII World Allergy Conference (WAC). The study was conducted during the winter in a town above 45 degrees latitude.Exercise can be associated with…
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Don’t ask….don’t tell!
If patients don’t think you as a doctor are open to discussion about complementary medicine, guess what? They won’t talk! This web site is to prove that the Federal Government is interested in “bridging the gap” between traditional medicine and the complementary approach. I would advise you to visit with your doctor about complementary medicines…
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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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The More You Know, the Less You Know
The practice of medicine is just that….I advise the recommended treatment based on the information available at the time. If I look back to the time during my fellowship in the early 90’s, much of what we thought was true and now 20 years later, been disproven. As an example, the following study from a respected…
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Sleep disordered breathing
Often allergy patients have sleep disordered breathing and want to know if allergies contribute. Most of the time, interruptions in your sleep due to allergy consist of congestion, snoring, sneezing, and possibly apnea. Anything other than those symptoms should be evaluated for alternative causes. Specialists dealing with sleep disorders are allergists, ENT (otolaryngologists) and pulmonologists. There…
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