Food Allergy News

Intercontinental migration showed a positive association with allergies among adults from ethnic groups living in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, compared with participants of Dutch origin, according to a letter published in Allergy.

After receiving a lung from a donor with known peanut allergy, a transplant patient with no history of allergy developed a temporary sensitization to peanut, according to a case study published in Annals of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology.

Patients with mild to moderate atopic dermatitis experienced slight and potentially unimportant improvements with dietary elimination, according to a study published in The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology: In Practice.

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Children who were introduced to cow’s milk protein early and consistently experienced a reduced risk for developing an allergy to it, according to a study published in The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology: In Practice.

Patients with food-dependent exercise-induced allergic reactions such as anaphylaxis can benefit from avoiding culprit foods before workouts, according to a review published in The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology: In Practice.

Children and adults exhibited the same likelihood of reaching desensitization via peanut oral immunotherapy, with similar rates of adverse events, according to study findings.

The Food Allergy Severity Score, or FASS, quantified differences in the severity of allergic reactions to animal-source foods and to tree nuts and legumes, according to data from the EuroPrevall study.

Loss-of-function mutations in the filaggrin gene appeared to predispose children to multiple types of food allergies independently of whether they had eczema, according to study findings in The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology.

Although the impact varies by country and by type, food allergies come with substantial monetary costs for families and other stakeholders, according to study results.