Food Allergy News

NIAID updated guidelines for introducing peanuts to infants to prevent allergy in 2017, but most caregivers and even many primary care providers including pediatricians are still not implementing these recommendations.

CHICAGO — Allergists can use their voices to change the environmental and economic policies that impact their patients, according to a presentation at the Global Food Allergy Prevention Summit.

The percentage of parents and other caregivers who know they should introduce peanuts into their infants’ diets to prevent allergy is improving, but disparities between populations exist, according to a study published in Pediatrics.

CHICAGO — Guidelines advise caregivers to introduce peanut into infant diets, but barriers prevent physicians and families from adhering to these recommendations, according to a presentation at the Global Food Allergy Prevention Summit.

CHICAGO — By protecting the skin barrier against atopic dermatitis, physicians may prevent food allergy as well, according to a presentation at the Global Food Allergy Prevention Summit.

CHICAGO — An intervention improved how many pediatricians followed guidelines for counseling caregivers in introducing their infants to peanuts to prevent allergy, according to a presentation at the Global Food Allergy Prevention Summit.

Children with food protein-induced allergic proctocolitis experienced impaired growth during their first year of life, but this resolves as the disease resolves, according to a study published in Annals of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology.

CHICAGO — Environmental exposures such as drought and wildfire smoke may induce food allergy, but awareness of these interactions may help us mitigate these impacts, according to a presentation at the Global Food Allergy Prevention Summit.

CHICAGO — Processing may make a difference when introducing potential allergens into infant diets to prevent food allergies, according to a presentation at the Global Food Allergy Prevention Summit.

CHICAGO — In this video, Antonella Muraro, MD, PhD, discusses the main points of her presentation at the Global Food Allergy Prevention Summit.