Drug/Insect/Latex News

Although concentrations of epinephrine weaken over time, significant amounts of epinephrine are retained in EpiPens long after their expiration dates, and the dose available 50 months after expiration will likely have a beneficial pharmacologic response, according to a research letter published in Annals of Internal Medicine.

Despite exhibiting skin or blood test sensitivity to peanuts and tree nuts, more than 50% of patients with a documented allergy to an individual nut passed oral food challenges consisting of additional nuts, according to data published in Annals of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology.

Adolescents with severe food allergies and their parents reported less anxiety about self-administering epinephrine injections after practicing with an empty syringe in a clinical setting, according to a study published in The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology: In Practice.

Bed casings that were impermeable against house dust mites effectively reduced ED visits for asthma exacerbations among mite-sensitized children, according to a recent study.

ATLANTA — Luis Salmun, MD, senior vice president, global medical affairs, DBV Technologies, outlined some of the projects in the company’s pipeline to help patients with several different types of allergic reactions at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology. He also discussed the results in the VIPES extension trial involving the company’s peanut patch.

ATLANTA — Lower and high doses of wheat oral immunotherapy induced significant desensitization in most wheat-allergic children following 1 year of treatment, according to data presented at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology.

ATLANTA — Peanut sublingual immunotherapy induced clinically significant desensitization in 86% of peanut-allergic children, as well as sustained unresponsiveness among children treated for 36-60 months, according to early data presented at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology.

ATLANTA —Researchers are developing an app to educate teenagers on epinephrine auto-injector use in anaphylaxis emergencies, as adolescents make up more than 50% of food allergy-related anaphylaxis fatalities, according to a presenter at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology.

ATLANTA — Significant online cost differences among epinephrine autoinjector devices do not correspond with incremental benefit, according to findings presented at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology.

ATLANTA — A didactic educational session led to a significant improvement in how much private school employees knew about food allergies, regardless of their education level and whether they were a parent, according to findings presented at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology.