Allergy/Asthma

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.

WASHINGTON — Children living in a household that reportedly ran out of food faced heightened odds for asthma and signs of wheezing with exercise, according to research presented at the American Thoracic Society International Conference.

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 — 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.

CHICAGO — Currently, the future of allergy prevention lies in early introduction of allergenic foods, according to the keynote presenter at the Global Food Allergy Prevention Summit.

After attending allergy conferences around the world that “sporadically discuss prevention,” Ruchi Gupta, MD, MPH, decided to organize a meeting specifically focused on the topic.

Infants who were breastfed through age 2 months developed significantly more IgE-mediated food allergy than infants who exclusively consumed cow’s milk formula, according to a study published in Annals of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology.