Treating children’s peanut allergy via skin patch shows promise in trial

Clinical trial of a skin patch to treat peanut allergy concludes treatment is safe and modestly effective, with greatest benefits for younger children.

Cinnamon Allergy: Symptoms and Treatment

Despite it’s popularity, some individuals experience an allergic reaction to cinnamon.

Allergic passengers beware: Nuts on a plane

Preparing for air travel can be highly challenging for nut-allergic passengers, a Short Reportpublished in the Medical Journal of Australia has found.

Peanut allergy prevention strategy is nutritionally safe, NIH-funded study shows

Early-life peanut consumption does not affect duration of breastfeeding or children’s growth and nutrition.

Seaweed could potentially help fight food allergies

Seaweed has long been a staple food in many Asian countries and has recently caught on as a snack food in America as a healthful alternative to chips.

Avoiding peanut after building tolerance is safe for children

Children who were at risk of peanut allergy but who built up tolerance over 5 years can safely stop eating peanut for a year without losing tolerance.

Asthma and allergies: a protective factor in farm milk

Fresh, unprocessed cow’s milk has a higher content of omega-3 fatty acids than does pasteurized, homogenized or low-fat milk.

Is it a real food allergy?

Over recent years we have been witnessing a significant increase in food intolerances and allergy. But when is it really an allergy?

Follow-up study of Viaskin Peanut shows significant increase in peanut consumption and treatment benefit in peanut allergic children

DBV Technologies, a clinicalstage specialty biopharmaceutical company, today announced that topline findings from the first 12 months of the OLFUS-VIPES study, or OLFUS, support the long-term…

Probiotic formula may hold key to cow’s milk allergy

Studies show that children with a cow’s milk allergy may benefit from probiotic treatment, and that food allergy may be related to structural differences in gut bacteria.

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