Allergy/Asthma News

Researchers identified an association between a self-reported history of high-risk allergy and an increased risk for allergic reactions after receipt of an mRNA COVID-19 vaccine.

Mothers exposed to cleaning products on the job before or around the time of conception and pregnancy were more likely to have offspring with asthma or wheeze, according to a study published in The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology.

Women who altered their diets to breastfeed children with food allergies had more psychosocial symptoms affecting bonding with their babies than breastfeeding mothers who did not need to alter their diets, according to a study.

Among new initiators of multiple-inhaler triple therapy for asthma, discontinuation was high, although approximately one-third of patients reinitiated their therapy, researchers reported at the CHEST Annual Meeting.

E-cigarette use among adults was associated with increased odds of developing asthma and COPD, especially among older adults, women and Hispanic Americans, according to new data presented at the CHEST Annual Meeting.

Mucor levels in urban homes where youth resided predicted difficult-to-control asthma, and these levels appeared more likely in homes with window air conditioning units, according to a study.

The FDA has approved dupilumab as an add-on maintenance treatment for children aged 6 to 11 years with moderate to severe asthma characterized by an eosinophilic phenotype or with oral corticosteroid-dependent asthma.

Researchers found that the circadian system contributes to the common nighttime worsening of asthma, according to data published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.

Treating patients with allergy-like symptoms can be difficult during the pandemic, especially when patients show signs that resemble COVID-19.

Improvements observed with triple therapy with umeclidinium, fluticasone furoate and vilanterol, and use of a higher fluticasone furoate dose, were consistent regardless of age at asthma onset, according to new data from the CAPTAIN study.