Food Allergy News

When peanut introduction fails, peanut OIT for infants should be offered as soon as possible via shared decision-making, according to a review published in The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology: In Practice.

Many parents, pediatric residents and attendings remained unaware of recommendations for early introduction of peanuts to children at high risk for allergy, according to a study published in Annals of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology.

In 2020, guidelines changed to encourage parents and caregivers to introduce peanut and egg to infants aged 4 months to 6 months to help prevent food allergies. Yet many parents still refrain from making these early introductions.

Two children with severe cow’s milk allergy developed anaphylactic reactions after receiving doses of a measles, mumps and rubella — or MMR — vaccine that included the alpha-lactoglobulin component of milk, researchers reported.

Anaphylaxis may occur to low-level cow’s milk exposure among approximately 5% of allergic individuals reacting to these doses, according to a study in The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology.

Prenatal antibiotic exposure appeared linked to increased susceptibility to childhood asthma and diseases implicated in the atopic march, including wheeze, eczema/dermatitis and allergic rhinitis, according to a review published in Allergy.

Although food allergy appeared common among children with atopic dermatitis, only 3% had food-triggered atopic dermatitis, according to a study published in The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology: In Practice.

Children and infants with cow’s milk allergy tolerated an extensively hydrolyzed whey-protein formula, providing suitable nutrition and enabling normal growth curves, according to study findings.

Sesame-induced anaphylaxis, usually due to hummus ingestion, common represented the first manifestation of sesame allergy among children in Canada, according to a study published in Annals of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology.

An excess of biotin can result in false-negative allergen-specific IgE results during the one-step biotin-streptavidin-based IMMULITE-2000 assay, according to a study published in The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology: In Practice.