Allergy

Conditions like asthma and seasonal allergies can start when a patient is very young and stay with them throughout the course of their lives. As a result careful monitoring and treatment can greatly help improve the quality of life for those patients.

For patients with seasonal allergies the prescription medications available may not be enough to help with their symptoms and shots may not be an option they want to consider. Newly developed sublingual immunotherapies have been developed to help these patients manage their daily lives.

Ethnographic study findings indicate that safe spaces represent a promising but so far under-utilized part of community-based HIV prevention infrastructure.

Researchers have revealed the discovery of a new gene that allows bacteria to become resistant to colistin, considered the "last line of defense" to antibiotic resistance.

It is generally well-understood that smoking cigarettes exacerbates symptoms of psoriasis. But recent study results clarify and strengthen the link between smoking and the development of psoriatic lesions.

Researchers try to determine the future of statins in treating asthma. The drugs show promise but pills might not be the best way to get them into the respiratory tract.

The world of medicine is changing and because of that organizations need to change as well. The American College of Allergy, Asthma, & Immunology is no exception to that trend.

It is a changing landscape for everyone in the healthcare field and those who work in allergy and immunology are no exception. How they react to these changes can determine how successful their practices are going forward.

Peanut allergies are a common concern in the public, especially in regards to children. While the number of children and adults with this allergy continues to grow the work to help keep them and the people around them safe also has increased in recent years.

With food allergies being a common problem in schools a program is looking at ways to help bring a possible treatment to help keep kids safe from potentially dangerous allergic reactions.

For patients with severe seasonal allergies the regularly available medications may not be enough to help their symptoms while the prospect of shots may be prohibitive enough to keep them from getting shots. A newly approved treatment could provide an alternative to the needle.

If one child is allergic to a specific food, then their brother or sister is probably going to have the intolerance as well, right? Not necessarily.

Why are so many children with asthma making trips to the emergency room (ER)? It could be due, at least in part, to what kind of physician is treating their condition to begin with.

Changing the gut bacteria of infants with probiotic formula can reverse cow's milk allergies.

Pharmacy shelves are lined with different brands to treat seasonal allergies, and most of the time, patients will pick one up. But as a new study found, allergy sufferers actually want prescription medication.

A penicillin allergy should be determined with a test, but far too often are patients wrongly told that a reaction to the drug means that they are allergic to it.

Breastfeeding has been linked to various benefits, including lower odds of childhood leukemia and reduced multiple sclerosis relapse risk in mothers. Unfortunately, reducing the risk of the baby developing allergies does not make the list.

Patients who could benefit from aspirin may be (wrongly) told that they are allergic because they had a reaction to the drug.

New parents may instinctively keep their baby away from the family dog. But according to a large Swedish study, early exposure to dogs and to farm animals lessens the risk an infant will develop asthma.

Research suggests support groups help teenagers with diagnosed allergies adhere consistently to guidelines that protect them against anaphylaxis and other reactions.

How expensive? Study results show that families with children who are allergic to staple food items pay out thousands of extra dollars each year in direct and indirect costs.

Although asthma increases the risk of anaphylaxis in children with milk allergies and reduces the chance that immunotherapy will prove fully successful, study results show that the majority of patients who undergo immunotherapy for a milk allergy can achieve a protective dose.

Earlier this year, a skin patch designed to reduce the risk of anaphylaxis and other severe reactions to peanuts became the first allergy treatment ever granted a Breakthrough Therapy Designation by the FDA.

Study results show asthma severity can be controlled with weight loss in obese patients.

Although there was widespread circulation of influenza viruses that were antigenically drifted from the vaccine virus, last year's flu vaccine appears to have been effective in preventing severe illness requiring hospitalization.

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Influenza vaccination among adults aged 18 to 64 appears to be associated with decreased rates of illness related to influenza among elderly adults living in the same area, according to Cleveland Clinic Research.

Research indicates that many nannies know dangerously little about how to prevent, recognize, or treat severe allergic reactions such as anaphylaxis.

Over the past year, school officials in several of the nation's largest states have implemented new policies to address the growing prevalence and severity of pediatric allergies by increasing access to epinephrine auto-injectors.