Allergy/Asthma News

As climate change impacts patients with allergies and asthma, experts from the CDC offered recommendations and resources for allergists and immunologists to improve care in a report published in Annals of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology.

Simplification from twice-daily to once-daily dosing of inhaled corticosteroids for asthma correlated with better medication adherence in children, according to a study published in Annals of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology.

Parents whose children are being evaluated for peanut and other food allergies may be anxious during testing, but deep breathing may help them cope, report a pair of studies published in Annals of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology.

Treatment with tralokinumab significantly improved symptoms among adolescents with moderate to severe atopic dermatitis, according to a study presented at the Western Society of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology Annual Scientific Meeting.

Oral immunotherapy with or without probiotic adjuvants conferred sustained unresponsiveness to peanut among allergic children, according to a randomized phase 2b study published in The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health.

Cathleen M. McCabe, MD, and Laura B. Enyedi, MD, talk with Jaya B. Kumar, MD, FASRS, and Jullia A. Rosdahl, MD, PhD, about addressing physician suicide and destigmatizing mental health. Plus, they share their favorite resilience hacks.

Patients with asthma who switched from a metered-dose inhaler to a dry-powder inhaler cut their inhaler carbon footprint by more than half, without loss of asthma control, according to data published in Thorax.

Levels of food proteins in breastmilk appeared much lower than the dose required to elicit an IgE-mediated allergic reaction among infants, according to a systematic review in The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology: In Practice.

Lirentelimab improved disease control among patients with antihistamine-refractory chronic urticaria, according to results of an open-label, proof-of-concept study published in The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology.

As cannabis use grows with expanded legalization, a group of experts is investigating allergic reactions to cannabis and developing potential policy and treatment to improve care, according to a review published in Allergy.