JACI: Advances in allergic skin disease, anaphylaxis, and hypersensitivity reactions to foods, drugs, and insects in 2008
- a rise in anaphylaxis in a population-based study
- lower rates of peanut allergy in Israel, where infants consume peanut products early
- IgE epitope mapping that discloses the likelihood and severity of allergy
- correlating likelihood of clinical reactivity with food-specific IgE to sesame, peanut, milk, and tree nuts
- majority of children with milk and egg allergy tolerate these proteins in modest amounts when they are extensively heated in baked goods
- promise for oral immunotherapy to treat milk allergy and sublingual immunotherapy for honey bee venom hypersensitivity
- skin barrier dysfunction is important in the pathophysiology of atopic dermatitis (AD)
- immunologic defects contribute to the propensity of patients with AD to develop viral and bacterial infection
References:
Advances in allergic skin disease, anaphylaxis, and hypersensitivity reactions to foods, drugs, and insects in 2008. Sicherer SH, Leung DY. J Allergy Clin Immunol. 2009 Feb;123(2):319-327.
- lower rates of peanut allergy in Israel, where infants consume peanut products early
- IgE epitope mapping that discloses the likelihood and severity of allergy
- correlating likelihood of clinical reactivity with food-specific IgE to sesame, peanut, milk, and tree nuts
- majority of children with milk and egg allergy tolerate these proteins in modest amounts when they are extensively heated in baked goods
- promise for oral immunotherapy to treat milk allergy and sublingual immunotherapy for honey bee venom hypersensitivity
- skin barrier dysfunction is important in the pathophysiology of atopic dermatitis (AD)
- immunologic defects contribute to the propensity of patients with AD to develop viral and bacterial infection
References:
Advances in allergic skin disease, anaphylaxis, and hypersensitivity reactions to foods, drugs, and insects in 2008. Sicherer SH, Leung DY. J Allergy Clin Immunol. 2009 Feb;123(2):319-327.