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Teal pumpkins to make Halloween safe for kids with food allergies
Halloween can be extra scary for kids with food allergies.
Source: CNN.com - Health - September 21, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Man cures his pollen allergy by tracking every sneeze for FIVE years and analysing what made his allergies worse
Thomas Christiansen, from Denmark, found dairy and gluten made his allergies worse, while drinking water helped. Tracking his symptoms with a smartphone app helped to make these connections.
Source: the Mail online | Health - September 25, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
No Do-Overs With Food Allergies, Only Tragic Endings
When my peanut allergic son was 5, he suddenly blurted out "Mom, don't worry about me, if I eat a nut by mistake and it kills me, I can just hit the re-do button and get another life, like in the video game." I became really scared that his child-like innocence prevented him from understanding the potential adverse ramifications of his own food allergy. The sad truth is that there are no do-overs or magic reset buttons if you get it wrong with a nut allergy, only tragic endings. While speaking at the Food Allergy Research and Education (FARE) dinner, a slide went up behind me listing all the food allergy fatalities during ...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - September 29, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Should babies be given solids earlier to prevent food allergies?
Many countries advise keeping babies off solid food until 6 months, but the latest evidence suggest that this could be making allergies more likely
Source: New Scientist - Health - October 19, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: research
Give babies solids at four months rather than six to prevent allergies, study finds
To protect against allergies, children should be introduced to foods like peanuts and eggs at four months old and then be regularly fed them, experts from Manitoba University, Winnipeg, advise.
Source: the Mail online | Health - October 20, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Soaring EpiPen Prices Raise Questions About Pharmaceutical Industry
BOSTON (CBS) – For someone with an allergy, an EpiPen can mean the difference between life and death. The price of this indispensable injectable drug has soared in recent years. Dr. Mark DeMatteo, an emergency room doctor at Beth Israel Deaconess in Plymouth, said the cost was around $60 ten years ago. The price now is about $400.
Every bite Dylan Frazier takes needs to be watched closely because the 9-year-old from Duxbury has severe food allergies.
“If we don’t have an EpiPen and he has a reaction, it could be deathly for him,” explained his mother Kristen Frazier.
Frazier makes sure there are EpiPens near Dy...
Source: WBZ-TV - Breaking News, Weather and Sports for Boston, Worcester and New Hampshire - October 22, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: rachelrmcknight Tags: Health Local News Seen On WBZ-TV Syndicated Local Allergies Dr. Mallika Marshall Source Type: news
Study: High rate of anaphylactic reactions in students with no known allergies
Stephen FellerWASHINGTON, Oct. 23 (UPI) -- Ten percent of U.S. schools reported at least one severe allergic reaction among students in 2013-2014, and one-fifth of those students had no known allergies.
Source: Health News - UPI.com - October 23, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Teal pumpkins to make Halloween safe for kids with food allergies
Halloween can be extra scary for kids with food allergies.
Source: CNN.com - Health - October 30, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Medical News Today: Breastfeeding may not prevent allergies
A new study of people with allergies shows no difference between those who were breastfed and those who were formula fed as babies.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - November 5, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Pediatrics / Children's Health Source Type: news
Study: Siblings unlikely to share the same food allergies
Stephen FellerSAN ANTONIO, Nov. 5 (UPI) -- The siblings of children with food allergies may also have a sensitivity, but do not usually share the actual allergy -- a significant distinction, doctors say.
Source: Health News - UPI.com - November 5, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Food Allergies Tied to Irritable Bowel Syndrome
Food allergies and genes that raise your odds of getting allergic diseases might play roles in some people's irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), two new studies suggest. WebMD has the details.
Source: WebMD Health - November 12, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Nasal spray flu vaccine safe for kids with egg allergies
(Reuters Health) - The intranasal flu vaccine, which contains live but weakened flu virus and a small amount of egg protein, does not cause adverse reactions in young people, even those with egg allergies or mild to moderate asthma, according to a new study in the U.K.
Source: Reuters: Health - December 17, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: healthNews Source Type: news
Got allergies? You can blame the Neanderthals
Recent studies suggest that modern allergies might be caused by Neanderthals interbreeding with early humans, thousands of years ago.
Source: CNN.com - Health - January 13, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Safety Net for Peanut Allergies
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. -- You’ve heard of fighting fire with fire. How about treating peanut allergies with peanuts? It’s a new approach to a potentially deadly threat that terrifies parents of allergic children. One brave child is helping researchers in their search for a peanut allergy cure.
Source: Medical Headlines From Ivanhoe.com - January 27, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
How An Elimination Diet May Improve Your Child’s Health
Photo Courtesy of Simon & Schuster
Maya Shetreat-Klein, MD is an integrative pediatric neurologist. Her new book, The Dirt Cure is published by Atria Publishing Group, a sister company of CBS. She lectures internationally to medical professionals and laypeople on environmental health and toxins, and healing with food and nature.
Many children in my practice improve tremendously from any number of conditions—asthma, eczema, constipation, headaches, ADHD, seizures—when we remove foods that bother their bodies. Unfortunately, traditional allergy tests don’t always tell the whole story of food reactivity. The best wa...
Source: WBZ-TV - Breaking News, Weather and Sports for Boston, Worcester and New Hampshire - January 26, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: cbskapost Tags: Health Allergies Allergy Best Of Boston's Best CBS Local Food Kids Maya Shetreat Klein Parenting peanuts Simon and Schuster The Dirt Cure Top Spots Source Type: news
