Allergy/Asthma

Data presented during the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology annual meeting indicated that introducing peanuts at an earlier age leads to a decrease in children with peanut allergy later in life.

In patients with severe and uncontrolled asthma, tezepelumab reduced exacerbations regardless of initial blood eosinophil count, improved lung function, provided asthma control and enhanced users’ health-related quality of life, data show.

Symptoms of allergic reaction to certain foods during breastfeeding may signal a child’s food allergies later in life, data presented at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology showed.

Study data presented at the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology meeting demonstrated a significant decrease in asthma severity in children following the installation of ultraviolet irradiation units compared with sham units.

Maternal antibiotic use in the second and third trimester of pregnancy was associated with an increased risk for developing childhood asthma, according to research published in Archives of Diseases in Children.

Risk for asthma in children grew with use of proton pump inhibitors compared with no-use, according to a study published in JAMA Pediatrics.

Anaphylaxis is often underdiagnosed and undertreated in children, but researchers at a busy tertiary care pediatric ED in Canada said they identified factors that predicted whether patients received epinephrine.

Higher omega-3 fatty acid intake in childhood was associated with lower risk for incident asthma up to mid-adolescence in children with a fatty acid desaturase polymorphism variant, researchers reported in the European Respiratory Journal.

Monitoring urinary eicosanoids provides a noninvasive approach to identify type 2 asthma and for molecular phenotyping of asthma in adolescents and adults, according to results published in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine.

A new study highlights a link between risk for asthma and sexual identity and inhaled substance use among adolescents.