Food Allergy News

PHOENIX — A fecal microbiota transplant from healthy donors enabled patients with severe peanut allergy to safely eat small amounts of peanut, according to a presentation at American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology Annual Meeting.

PHOENIX — Racial disparities touch every aspect of clinical care for food allergies, from prevention and diagnosis to insurance coverage and to the diversity of the workforce providing treatment.

PHOENIX — Researchers for the first time sequenced the main allergen of macadamia nut and its cross-reactivity pattern with hazelnut, according to a poster presented at the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology Annual Meeting.

David A. Khan, MD, FAAAAI, of University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, will be installed as president of the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology during its annual meeting Feb. 25 to 28 in Phoenix.

Approximately one in 40 items purchased at bakeries in the New York and Miami metropolitan areas contained unintended peanut protein, according to a study published in Annals of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology.

Parents whose children are being evaluated for peanut and other food allergies may be anxious during testing, but deep breathing may help them cope, report a pair of studies published in Annals of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology.

Oral immunotherapy with or without probiotic adjuvants conferred sustained unresponsiveness to peanut among allergic children, according to a randomized phase 2b study published in The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health.

Levels of food proteins in breastmilk appeared much lower than the dose required to elicit an IgE-mediated allergic reaction among infants, according to a systematic review in The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology: In Practice.

Although cases of pediatric food allergy anaphylaxis increased in Australia over the last 2 decades, the rate of increase slowed following the release of new guidelines, according to data in The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology.

A two-step algorithm improved the accuracy and reduced the need for oral food challenges in diagnosing cashew allergy in children, according to a study published in The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology: In Practice.