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Self-reported penicillin allergy may be undiagnosed chronic urticaria
HOUSTON – The higher prevalence of chronic urticaria in patients with self-reported penicillin allergy suggests that these patients may be confusing one condition with the other, according to a late-breaking study presented at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma, and...
Source: Skin and Allergy News - March 19, 2015 Category: Dermatology Tags: FPN News FPN Allergy & Immunology FPN Dermatology HOSP News IMN News IMN Allergy IMN Dermatology Source Type: news

Consider cephalosporin a safe alternative for patients with penicillin allergy
HOUSTON– Given the low incidence of adverse drug reactions to cephalosporin antibiotics among nearly a million California health plan patients, patients with a history of penicillin allergy can safely be given cephalosporins, according to Dr. Eric M. Macy. The recommendation is based on the...
Source: Skin and Allergy News - March 28, 2015 Category: Dermatology Tags: EM Clinical News EM News FPN News FPN Allergy & Immunology FPN Infectious Diseases HOSP News HOSP Bacterial Infections HOSP Infectious Diseases Source Type: news

Mast cells predict hypersensitive reactions in rituximab desensitization
HOUSTON – For rituximab patients undergoing desensitization, mast cell degranulation is a more effective predictor of hypersensitive reactions (HSR) than are the traditionally employed skin tests, according to a study presented at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma, and...
Source: Skin and Allergy News - April 12, 2015 Category: Dermatology Tags: FPN News FPN Allergy & Immunology FPN Rheumatology IMN News IMN Allergy IMN Rheumatology RHEUM News Source Type: news

Risk factors identified for gestational eczema
HOUSTON– New-onset eczema during pregnancy is a common phenomenon with several newly identified risk factors. This disease entity deserves a proper name: gestational eczema, Dr. Wilfried J.J. Karmaus asserted at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology. In...
Source: Skin and Allergy News - April 18, 2015 Category: Dermatology Tags: FPN News FPN Allergy & Immunology FPN Women's Health OBGYN News OBGYN Complications OBGYN Obstetrics SAN Clinical News SAN News Source Type: news

AAP: Give peanut products to high-risk infants to cut allergy risk
Infants at high risk for peanut allergy should start a peanut-based diet by age 4-11 months, experts from the American Academy of Pediatrics and nine other medical groups advised in the September issue of the American Journal of Pediatrics. The consensus communication upends traditional views...
Source: Skin and Allergy News - August 31, 2015 Category: Dermatology Source Type: news

AAAAI: Early peanut consumption brings lasting protection from allergy
LOS ANGELES – A peanut allergy prevention strategy based upon regular consumption of peanut-containing foods from infancy to age 5 continued to provide protection even after peanut intake was halted for a full year from age 5 to 6, according to new results from an extension of the landmark LEAP...
Source: Skin and Allergy News - March 7, 2016 Category: Dermatology Source Type: news

No evidence supports hydrolyzed formula over cows’ milk for allergy prevention
Findings on the use of hydrolyzed formula in place of standard cows’ milk formula to prevent allergy in high-risk infants do not support current guidelines, according to Dr. Robert J Boyle of Imperial College London and his associates. A review and meta-analysis were performed on 28 randomized...
Source: Skin and Allergy News - March 8, 2016 Category: Dermatology Source Type: news

Food allergy development linked to S. aureus colonization in children with AD
Staphylococcus aureus colonization is associated with development of food allergy in children with atopic dermatitis (AD), according to a letter to the editor from Dr. Andrea L. Jones and her associates. In a study of 718 patients with AD, median food allergen–specific IgE levels to peanut...
Source: Skin and Allergy News - May 3, 2016 Category: Dermatology Source Type: news

Aspirin desensitization making headway in U.S.
HOUSTON – About 63% of allergists and fellows in training perform aspirin desensitization for aspirin-exacerbated respiratory disease, according to a national survey. That figure is lower than it should be, given the wealth of published evidence that aspirin desensitization is a safe and...
Source: Skin and Allergy News - April 19, 2015 Category: Dermatology Tags: CHEST Clinical News CHEST News CHEST Pulmonary Medicine FPN News FPN Allergy & Immunology FPN Pulmonary and Sleep Medicine IMN News IMN Allergy Source Type: news

Majority of eczema appears after childhood
Though atopic dermatitis is often regarded as infrequent in adulthood, only 40% of study subjects with current eczema reported onset of the disease in childhood, with most beginning after adulthood, according to data published in the Journal of the European Academy of Dermatology and...
Source: Skin and Allergy News - June 9, 2015 Category: Dermatology Tags: SAN Clinical News SAN News SAN Atopic Dermatitis FPN News FPN Allergy & Immunology FPN Dermatology IMN News IMN Allergy Source Type: news

Contact allergen of 2015: Formaldehyde
SAN FRANCISCO – Formaldehyde has been named the American Contact Dermatitis Society Contact Allergen of the Year for 2015, Dr. David E. Cohen said in the hot topics session at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Dermatology. Formaldehyde has been a factor in contact dermatitis for a...
Source: Skin and Allergy News - March 21, 2015 Category: Dermatology Tags: SAN Conference News SAN Clinical News SAN News SAN Atopic Dermatitis IMN News IMN Allergy & Immunology IMN Dermatology FPN News Source Type: news

Pimecrolimus cream safe, effective for atopic dermatitis in young children
Using pimecrolimus cream as a first-line treatment for atopic dermatitis in infants spares the need for topical corticosteroids as frequently and appears safe over the long term, according to a study published online March 23 in Pediatrics. “The efficacy results suggest that pimecrolimus has...
Source: Skin and Allergy News - March 23, 2015 Category: Dermatology Tags: CME-candidate FPN Journals FPN News FPN Allergy & Immunology FPN Child Adolescent Medicine FPN Dermatology SAN Journals Source Type: news

Peripartum probiotics linked to lower atopic dermatitis risk in offspring
Peripartum consumption of probiotic milk was associated with a decline in the incidence of atopic dermatitis in offspring, but other allergy-related diseases were not reduced in the children, the results of a randomized study indicate. In a randomized study, 415 pregnant women drank eiher...
Source: Skin and Allergy News - September 12, 2015 Category: Dermatology Source Type: news

Food-antigen–specific immunoglobulin E is not a predictor of food allergies in atopic dermatitis
Food-antigen–specific immunoglobulin E (sIgE) levels were not clinically useful for predicting food allergy development in a study of infants with atopic dermatitis (AD). The dual-phase study included 1,087 patients aged 3-18 months who had been diagnosed with AD for no more than 3 months prior to...
Source: Skin and Allergy News - November 23, 2015 Category: Dermatology Source Type: news

Staph aureus drives atopic dermatitis
LOS ANGELES – Evidence is building for the hypothesis that impairments in the skin’s microbiome promote Staphylococcus aureus colonization and drive atopic dermatitis, Dr. Donald Y.M. Leung said at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology. The link...
Source: Skin and Allergy News - April 4, 2016 Category: Dermatology Source Type: news