Allergy and Immunology News of the Day

Health News of the Day is a daily summary made from the selected links I post on Twitter. It is in a bullet points format with links to the original sources which include 350 RSS feeds that produce about 2,500 items per day.

• People who clean their homes with hypochlorite bleach less likely to be atopic, more likely to have respiratory symptoms http://bit.ly/L1A0X
  
  
• Lipid transfer protein (Ara h 9) is a new peanut allergen relevant for a Mediterranean allergic population. http://bit.ly/17q2J3
  
  
• Gastrointestinal tract is the largest lymphoid organ in the body. 4 major GI problems in antibody deficiency: infection, malignancy, inflammatory, autoimmune. May mimic IBD, celiac. http://bit.ly/87MrW
  
  
• Another asthma predictive index: Clinical asthma prediction score for preschool children who have asthma-like symptoms for the first time. Risk score based on 8 clinical parameters predicts asthma in preschool children who first reported asthma-like symptoms http://bit.ly/d6K6c
  
  
• In ICS users, chronic cough or phlegm and female sex were related to uncontrolled asthma. In non-ICS users, high total IgE and sensitization to molds were associated with uncontrolled asthma http://bit.ly/x7GtG
  
  
• Guardian.co.uk: MSG allergy is fake science http://bit.ly/7X183
  
  
• Expanding snow crab-processing industry may increase risk of occupational allergy, 4 IgE-reactive proteins identified http://bit.ly/i2dma
  
  
• Recent Advances in Childhood Asthma: An Expert Interview With Bradley E. Chipps, MD - Medscape http://bit.ly/VcnhY

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