Food Allergy News

Infants with a diverse diet at age 9 months were less likely to develop food allergy by age 18 months, especially if they had a history of eczema, according to a study published by Pediatric Allergy and Immunology.

Patients with food allergies face many risks when they dine and travel away from home, but doctors need data to help prioritize and address these dangers.

Dining out can be scary for the 33 million people in the United States with a food allergy. Even when restaurants list allergic ingredients in their menus, the information may be out of date or hard to find.

Following receipt of increasing peanut oral immunotherapy, or home-measured peanut butter, desensitization to peanut protein in children initially able to ingest more than half a peanut was achieved, according to study results.

Children with anaphylaxis who received epinephrine before going to the ED were significantly less likely to be admitted to the ICU, according to a study published in The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology: In Practice.

After Uber Eats sparked controversy last year with a planned Super Bowl commercial that poked fun at anaphylaxis, Food Allergy Research & Education worked with the company to change the ad and promote allergy awareness.

Following receipt of dupilumab for 24 weeks, desensitization to peanut exposure in most children/adolescents with peanut allergy was not achieved, according to results published in Allergy.

Children with food allergy face a substantial psychosocial burden regardless of their sociodemographic or clinical characteristics, according to a study published in The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology: In Practice.

Two-thirds of toddlers with peanut allergy who used the VIASKIN Peanut patch from DBV Technologies completed an oral food challenge at 36 months without meeting criteria for stopping, according to a webinar held by the company.