Allergy/Asthma

Children with immediate allergic reactions to their first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine safely received the second dose, 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.

Children and adolescents with allergic asthma and serum IgE levels that exceed approved dosing ranges still benefitted from omalizumab, according to a study published in The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology: In Practice.

Children with siblings had a reduced risk for developing allergic rhinitis, particularly if they were younger and had multiple older siblings, according to study results.

Daily administration of vitamin D during pregnancy decreased the risk for atopic eczema in children, according to data published in the British Journal of Dermatology.

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

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.

Antibiotic allergies frequently were incompletely and inconsistently documented in a tertiary pediatric hospital setting, according to a study presented at the European Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immunology Hybrid Congress.