Here were the tweets and (virtual) presentations I thought were most interesting:
ACE inhibitors are often used to treat high blood pressure. I believe Lisinopril was the one specifically mentioned. This goes hand in hand with the idea that older patients, especially men, can see changes in the severity of their allergic reactions as they age.
Here's an answer on the question many of us asked about component testing. Just as with RAST, the number itself doesn't matter; just the positive result.
Gross! But yes, give your kids the bobber after the dog/ brother/ mailman licked it.
Conversely, tree-nut-allergic individuals have a 30% incidence of concurrent peanut allergy.
So stop blaming yourselves, FA mommies! I've said this consistently - Mother Nature would not rig the game so babies needed to be given certain foods at certain times. Our existence on this earth has been too precarious to count on that type of consistency.
Part two of STOP BLAMING YOURSELF! It doesn't matter what you ate. It doesn't matter what you fed your baby. We don't know how sensitization happens, but it doesn't seem to be through the food itself.
Other summaries and presentations you might like:
- Fast foods associated with an increased risk of allergy
- Climate change may be the culprit in allergy/asthma increase
- Defining allergy fact from fiction (this may be a helpful one to pass around with the turkey!)
- Egg allergy and the flu shot from Sloane Miller - get the word out! Everyone needs a flu shot!
- 13 things your allergist won't tell you
- Myth vs. Fact: food allergies
- The high cost of food allergies
- Too few food allergies confirmed by oral challenge
- Great summary of literature and the specific food allergy research (thank you, as always, Ves Dimov!)
Happy Wednesday!
Thank you for this! I shall be reading lots of it! I can back up the Ara H2 test, My son got a positive (4.2) RAST, massive fail of peanut challenge. And yes, flu shots people! I didn't give my son the flu shot due to egg allergy and age, ad he has just had Influenze B and been on tamiflu etc. Won't be hesitating next year!
ReplyDeleteI get sick for 1-2 months every time I get the flu shot but haven't had the flu in my house for 6+ years since I stopped. Love being off the death bed. Have a friend who's kid went into anaphylaxis from the flu shot suddenly found herself at age 8 allergic to eggs/wheat/gluten. Took 4 years and one day suddenly that egg anaphy allergy was gone GONE. Like the body healed. Her lower new "allergy" to wheat/gluten stuck however. Something sensitized her- could it be the shot well the ingred. could sensitize a mouse so I suppose if her immunity was vulnerable or impacted by inflammation genetic change maybe?
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