Articles Tagged with ''allergies''

Giving children with egg allergies increasingly higher doses of the very food they are allergic to can eliminate or ease reactions in most of them.

Children in urban areas have a higher incidence of food allergies than those in rural America, according to a new study.

The Food Allergy Initiative (FAI) and the Food Allergy & Anaphylaxis Network (FAAN) announced their intent to merge, pending regulatory approvals.

The different allergy labels in common use may be confusing consumers instead of helping them decide whether to buy a food product, a new Canadian study shows.

Reports of U.S. children with a food allergy jumped by a third between 2003-2004 and 2007-2008.

Many predict allergy season this year will be brutal, but a U.S. food expert says picking up a few items in the grocery store may help.

Not all people with nut allergies are savvy when it comes to identifying the nuts they are actually allergic to, a new study suggests.

Playing in the sunshine reduces the risk of children developing eczema and food allergies, researchers claim.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the number of children with food allergies jumped 18% between 1997-2007, and researchers at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago found 8% of U.S. children under the age of 18 have at least one food allergy.

Researchers at the Medical College of Wisconsin have found a possible link between norovirus, a virus that causes "stomach flu" in humans, and food allergies.