Allergy/Asthma

Despite exhibiting skin or blood test sensitivity to peanuts and tree nuts, more than 50% of patients with a documented allergy to an individual nut passed oral food challenges consisting of additional nuts, according to data published in Annals of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology.

ORLANDO, Fla. — Racial and ethnic minority children experienced disparities in health care utilization and school attendance related to their atopic dermatitis, according to late-breaking research presented at the American Academy of Dermatology Annual Meeting.

Adolescents with severe food allergies and their parents reported less anxiety about self-administering epinephrine injections after practicing with an empty syringe in a clinical setting, according to a study published in The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology: In Practice.

Bed casings that were impermeable against house dust mites effectively reduced ED visits for asthma exacerbations among mite-sensitized children, according to a recent study.

Patients with asthma are at increased risk for more severe influenza disease, according to research published in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology.

SAN DIEGO – For pediatricians and health care providers looking for guidance on educating parents on how to prevent and manage peanut allergy, the NIH has made guidelines available through its website, Anthony S. Fauci, MD, MACP, director of National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases told Healio Family Medicine.

ORLANDO, Fla. — In a video perspective from the American Academy of Dermatology Annual Meeting, Junko Takeshita, MD, PhD, discusses her late-breaking research presentation on racial and ethnic disparities in health care utilization and school attendance among children with atopic dermatitis.

Although asthma morbidity is associated with living in poor and urban areas, these risk factors are not connected to prevalence of the condition in children from low-income families.

The $465 million settlement proposed by Mylan, the manufacturer of the epinephrine autoinjector EpiPen, to resolve its misclassification of EpiPen as a generic drug for the Medicaid Drug Rebate Program, underestimates the actual cost of Mylan’s strategy, according to a recent research letter published in JAMA Internal Medicine.

Black schoolchildren were significantly more likely to require emergency medical crews to treat ‘uncontrolled’ asthma attacks at Houston public schools and at home, compared with white and Hispanic students, according to recent study.