Drug/Insect/Latex News

Provider-based diagnosis data yielded an association between food allergy and the development of respiratory allergy, along with lower rates of eczema and higher rates of asthma than previously reported, according to published findings.

The FDA granted fast track designation to an investigational treatment for pediatric patients aged two years and older with immunoglobulin E-mediated cow’s milk protein allergy, according to the drug’s manufacturer.

Long-term use of swallowed Flonase safely maintained endoscopic and clinical improvements and reductions in esophageal eosinophils among children with eosinophilic esophagitis, according to the results of an open-label, prospective, single-center study.

Recent data suggested that early-life peanut consumption, as part of a strategy that reduces peanut allergy risk, was nutritionally safe and did not interfere with breast-feeding duration or children’s growth.

Use of a provocation challenge in pediatric patients with a rash and suspected amoxicillin allergy successfully predicted the percentage of patients with an allergic reaction, according to recent research.

Researchers found no skin and soft tissue infection or systemic infections after administering more than 130,000 allergen immunotherapy treatments to patients at Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, according to a recent study published in The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology.

BALTIMORE — More than 75% of children diagnosed with penicillin allergy displayed low-risk symptoms that were not likely to be conducive with true allergy, according to recent study findings presented at the Pediatric Academic Societies Meeting.

The use of recombinant allergens for birch pollen and cat dander shows a comparable diagnostic to natural extracts, according to recent research.

Patients with a positive reaction to aminopenicillins may also have a reaction to aminocephalosporins such as cefuroxime, ceftriaxone, and aztreonam, according to recent research.

Allergists are better than nonallergists at identifying stinging insects, but have similar, lower accuracy at identifying insects as nonallergists, according to recent research.