Pediatric Allergy Asthma News

SAN DIEGO — Following use of race-neutral lung function equations, African American and Latino pediatric patients with asthma had reductions in FEV1 and FVC while white patients with asthma had increases, according to a presentation here.

SAN DIEGO — Food allergy anxiety is a unique subtype of anxiety that merits specific assessment and tailored interventions, according to an abstract presented here.

SAN DIEGO — Infants who did not exclusively feed on colostrum during their first 3 days of life were more likely to develop egg or peanut allergy, according to an abstract presented here.

SAN DIEGO — In Chicago public schools that adopted a stock inhaler program, more students who used a stock inhaler for asthma symptoms went back to class vs. leaving with a parent or emergency services, according to a poster presented here.

SAN DIEGO — In a cohort of nearly 300 pediatric patients with cystic fibrosis, food allergy was found in less than 4% of the population, which was a lower proportion than the general pediatric population, according to a presentation here.

SAN DIEGO — A link between antibiotic use for a maternal indication in 1-week-olds and an elevated risk for asthma at 6 years old has been discovered, according to a presentation here.

The likelihood for multiple asthma hospital admissions was greater among youth living in more socially vulnerable areas, as well as areas with less opportunity, according to results published in Pediatric Allergy and Immunology.

As we approach the first anniversary of omalizumab’s approval for food allergy, its use is “definitely going to grow,” Robert A. Wood, MD, FAAAAI, professor of pediatrics, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, told Healio.

Researchers have discovered significant links between total serum IgE in children with food allergy and several patient factors, according to results published in The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology: In Practice.

The neffyinSchools program from ARS Pharma will provide eligible public and private K-12 schools in the United States with two cartons of the company’s neffy epinephrine nasal spray, including a total of four single-use doses, for free.