Category: Allergies
What You Need to Know About Allergy Testing
A relatively easy test can give you the information you need to feel better, whether you’re allergic to peanuts, ragweed, cats, or something else entirely.
Red Meat Making Your Patient Sick? This Could Be Why
Allergies, Epidemiology, Food Allergies, Immunology, Physicians
A Way to Treat Food Allergies, Coming Soon
There’s treatment on the horizon that can desensitize children to food allergens.
Taking the sting out of insect-sting allergies
Insect stings cause 40 to as many as 100 deaths nationwide each year. A review of current scientific literature related to specific insect-sting hypersensitivity points to epinephrine auto-injectors and immunotherapy as lifesavers in people with a previous sting-induced systemic allergic reaction.
UNC researchers discover promising new treatment for egg allergy
Giving egg-allergic children small amounts of egg over many months found to reduce severe reactions, help some shed the allergy entirely.