Allergies

People with Food Allergies Can Treat Symptoms with Asthma Medication, FDA DecidesNew research demonstrates that Xolair, an injectable asthma medication, can reduce severe reactions to peanuts, milk and eggs by dulling an overactive immune responseBy Andrew Chapman Credit: Mykola Sosiukin/Getty ImagesAny time people with severe allergies to foods such as peanuts, milk or eggs sit down for a meal—whether at home, a friend’s place or a restaurant—they must pay careful attention to each ingredient they’re eating. Two children…

Omalizumab, currently used to treat asthma, has been shown to substantially reduce the risk of potentially life-threatening reactions in people aged one and older with multiple common food allergies, including peanuts, following accidental exposure. While not a cure, the now FDA-approved drug could improve the quality of life for food allergy sufferers.The incidence of food allergies has risen globally over the last decade, affecting approximately one in 10 adults and one in 12 children. The cause of the rise is unknown,…

In 1998 an asthma and allergy drug called montelukast hit the U.S. market under the name Singulair. In the years that followed, commercials filled with flowers and cats proclaimed that it was “a different way to treat allergies.” During the next two decades it became many doctors’ go-to antiallergy and asthma prescription—especially for children because, unlike other asthma medications, it comes in pill form and does not require fiddling with an inhaler. “It used to be prescribed like vitamins,” says Andrei…

Respiratory illness season is here, and with it typically comes snotty, stuffy noses. Earlier this fall a Food and Drug Administration panel concluded that oral phenylephrine—a common active ingredient in cold and allergy medicines—is useless at clearing up congestion. Now that many of these over-the-counter drugs officially don’t work, what are some other remedies and medications adults and children can turn to?“It is always a hot topic,” says Andrew Lane, a rhinologist and director of the Johns Hopkins Sinus Center.…

Somebody hit the warp speed button, judging from the icy wings astronomers have spotted surrounding an approaching comet. Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks, which has been likened to the Millennium Falcon of Star Wars fame by one astronomy website for its new look, is now inbound on a fast pass by the sun. It’s one of the brightest known Halley–like comets, which are icy rocks that take 20 to 200 years to orbit the sun and do so along a steeply inclined path relative to the rest of the solar system. On July 20 astronomers worldwide…

In response to a 2021 law, some companies began adding sesame to products that hadn’t included it, saying that was safer than certifying they had eliminated all traces of it. In response to a 2021 law, some companies began adding sesame to products that hadn’t included it, saying that was safer than certifying they had eliminated all traces of it. FOLLOW US ON GOOGLE NEWS Read original article here Denial of responsibility! Techno Blender is an automatic aggregator of the all world’s media. In each content,…

Allergic: Our Irritated Bodies in a Changing World by Theresa MacPhail Random House, 2023 ($28.99) Decades after her father's terrifying death from a bee sting, Theresa MacPhail learned that she, too, had allergies. The surprising diagnosis came after she contracted four respiratory infections in less than a year and made visits to specialists. What caused the seemingly sudden onset of her allergies? Unimpressed by the books she found in her search for answers, MacPhail, a medical anthropologist, began…

A miserable allergy season has everyone sniffling through meetings, wiping down printers and apologizing to colleagues. A miserable allergy season has everyone sniffling through meetings, wiping down printers and apologizing to colleagues. FOLLOW US ON GOOGLE NEWS Read original article here Denial of responsibility! Techno Blender is an automatic aggregator of the all world’s media. In each content, the hyperlink to the primary source is specified. All trademarks belong to their rightful owners, all materials…

Almost every day, Jim Anderson climbs the stairs to the roof of the six-storey building where he works in London's SoHo neighbourhood. And while it offers an eye-catching vista of London's skyline, he's not up there for the view.He makes this daily ascent to tend to an instrument called a volumetric spore trap. Anderson, who is a aerobiologist, retrieves from the trap a slide covered with a thin layer of sticky grease, not unlike a fly trap. The instrument sucks in air at the rate of two litres a minute, blowing it…

Egg allergies are one of the most common allergies in children and can be triggered by a wide range of food products, even vaccines. Now, researchers have used genome editing technology to develop a chicken egg that may be safe for allergy sufferers to eat.The allergy is caused by the immune system’s overreaction to the protein found in eggs. A person can be allergic to the white or the yolk, but allergies to egg whites are more common. Usually, but not always, children outgrow their egg allergy before adolescence.The…