Peanut allergy: Six genes found that drive allergic reaction
New study identifies key genes, biological mechanisms, and cell types that are active in a peanut allergy response and might offer targets for treatment.
December 5, 2017 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: allergy, biological-mechanisms, key-genes, might-offer, oncalldiets, peanut-allergy, study-identifies
High-fiber diet alters gut bacteria to protect against food allergy
A high-fiber diet rich in vitamin A may lower the risk of food allergy, suggest researchers who found that it protected against peanut allergy in mice.
June 26, 2016 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: food intolerance, food-allergy, high-fiber-diet, may-lower, nutritional counseling, on call diets, oncalldietitian.com, oncalldiets, peanut-allergy, risk, the-risk
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.
March 7, 2016 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: allergy, eating-peanut, nutrition, nutritional counseling, on call diets, oncalldietitian.com, peanut-allergy, safely-stop, tolerance-over
Improved Peanut Allergy Diagnosis
Researchers from the Murdoch Childrens Research Institute and the University of Melbourne have identified a new way to accurately test for peanut allergy. It is hoped the test will be more cost effective and convenient than standard approaches and minimise over-diagnosis of peanut allergy in the community…
March 22, 2012 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: accurately-test, allergy, hoped-the-test, melbourne, more-cost, murdoch, new-way, on call diets, oncalldietitian.com, peanut-allergy, research, university