Food Allergy News

WASHINGTON — Black families with food allergy reported that the food available in their community was low in quality, according to a poster presented at the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology Annual Meeting.

WASHINGTON — Some children with food protein-induced enterocolitis syndrome may safely reintroduce triggers into their diets at home, according to a study presented at the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology Annual Meeting.

WASHINGTON — Infants who were exposed to acid-suppressive medications had increased risk for developing food allergy, according to an abstract presented at the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology Annual Meeting.

WASHINGTON — Compared with white, Asian and Hispanic children, African American children more frequently visited the ED because of asthma or a food allergy, according to study findings.

Children with severe allergic asthma and serum total IgE levels between 1,500 kU/L and 3,300 kU/L as well as food allergy benefitted from omalizumab, according to a study published in Pediatric Allergy and Immunology.

WASHINGTON — Children were desensitized to baked and unheated milk with 12 and 24 months of baked milk oral immunotherapy, according to a study presented at the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology Annual Meeting.

WASHINGTON — Adults with peanut allergy safely used toothpaste infused with peanut protein as oral mucosal immunotherapy, according to a poster presented at the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology Annual Meeting.

An analysis of global online conversations among health care professionals on social media in February showed an overarching sense of enthusiasm about FDA approval of the first cellular therapy to treat unresectable or metastatic melanoma.

Patients with food allergy who used omalizumab experienced increased thresholds for reacting to peanut and other foods to which they were allergic, according to a study published in The New England Journal of Medicine.

WASHINGTON — A nurse-led intervention improved pediatric food allergy knowledge, although it also revealed “concerning” shortcomings in certain areas of identification and management, research showed.