Penicillin Allergy – one of many common allergies. Trisha Wendling, DNP, APRN, CPNP-PC, presents guidance on how to approach a reported allergy to penicillin in the pediatric population. Understanding ...

Patients with food allergy have a sensitization to a specific food or foods and manifest a reproducible immune response whenever exposed to food-based allergens. The true prevalence of food allergy in ...

More than six million people in the U.S. have an allergy to peanuts, according to Food Allergy Research and Education (FARE). Nearly 1.6 million of these sufferers are kids and teens. "The recent news ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Pediatric primary care offices can perform graded oral amoxicillin challenges during routine ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Peanut, egg and shellfish were the most common IgE-mediated food allergies. The atopic march often starts with ...

The treatment of atopic dermatitis (AD) is undergoing a revolution thanks to biologics. Now, an allergist and a dietician told pediatric dermatologists that the treatment of a related condition ― food ...

Mary Grace Baker, MD, allergist and pediatrician at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City, describes the challenge of preventing food allergies in the first year of life as a ...

The primary risk factor for development of food allergy in a child is having a biological parent or sibling with a history of allergic disease. For example, children with food allergy are four times ...

MAYFIELD HEIGHTS, Ohio -- According to the website Food Allergy Research and Education, 33 million Americans have a food allergy, including one in 13 children. Such allergies start in childhood, but ...

As part of the nationwide International Maternal, Pediatric, Adolescent AIDS Clinical Trials (IMPAACT) Network sponsored by the National Institutes of Health, the Section of Allergy and Immunology ...

(Philadelphia, PA) -- There is public confusion regarding our body's reaction to certain foods. On a basic level, an adverse food reaction refers to any reaction following the ingestion of a food. One ...