Allergy/Asthma News

A clinical pathway that emphasized early epinephrine use and reassessed its use before IV placement improved outcomes in pediatric patients with allergy, according to findings presented at the American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology Annual Scientific Meeting.

About a quarter of individuals develop a food allergy after the age of 18 years, but are not frequently diagnosed by physicians, according to findings presented at the American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology Annual Scientific Meeting.

More than half of the young patients with peanut allergy treated with 250 µg of Viaskin Peanut tolerated an increased eliciting dose of peanut protein, according to phase 3 trial results presented at the American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology Annual Scientific Meeting.

An updated estimate showed that more than half of children aged 1 year and younger in the United States are allergic to cow’s milk. The research, presented at the American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology Annual Scientific Meeting, or ACAAI, suggested that as children age, the percentage of those with cow’s milk allergy decreases.

The majority of actuations in patients with asthma were poor, regardless of whether or not the patient used either a rescue or a controller metered dose inhaler, according to findings presented at the American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology Annual Scientific Meeting.

NEW YORK — Food allergies can be difficult to determine in pediatric patients — a topic addressed at the annual Infectious Diseases in Children Symposium. Although many parents may claim that their child has a food allergy, experts urge pediatricians to carefully consider the patient’s previous exposures and reactions before testing.

At the annual Infectious Diseases in Children Symposium, Lawrence Eichenfield, MD, chief of pediatric and adolescent dermatology at Rady Children’s Hospital, presented on the management and treatment of atopic dermatitis among children, which he said extend beyond dermatological concerns.

Young patients with peanut allergy who received the immunotherapy treatment AR101 became tolerant to peanut over time, protecting themselves from accidental ingestion, according to phase 3 trial findings presented at the American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology Annual Scientific Meeting.

Parents who sucked pacifiers to clean them had children with lower total IgE production, according to findings presented at the American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology Annual Scientific Meeting.

The FDA has approved over-the-counter Primatene Mist to temporarily relieve symptoms of mild, intermittent asthma in patients aged 12 years and older, according to a press release.