When I started prescribing sublingual immunotherapy to my allergic patients in the 1980s, one of the biggest selling points was that patients could administer it at home. For years, patients wanting lasting relief through allergy immunotherapy had only one...
Kids are struggling with allergies at a much higher rate than they used to. Consider these statistics: The incidence of food allergies in U.S. children increased by 50 percent between 1997 and 2011. (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) Allergies to peanuts and...
If you have a food allergy, you’re used to your own kind of “normal”—having an EpiPen as a constant companion, bringing out your ninja label-reading skills before you try that new snack, and shrewdly avoiding trigger foods at parties and potlucks. As you set out for...
If you have allergies, you’ve probably felt them turn you into a sneezing, wheezing, runny-nosed, puffy-eyed mess in the heart of allergy season. Between 20 and 25 percent of Americans have allergies. So, how’d you get so “lucky” to be among this distinguished...
Summer is here, and the great outdoors is beckoning with its backyard barbecues, picnics in the park, and hiking and camping trips. Unfortunately, you have to share the space with insects. Bugs have been on the nation’s mind since late spring when Brood X, a type of...
Peanut-free lunch tables. Allergen-free menus at restaurants. A plethora of milk substitutes, ranging from soy to almond milk. Evidence of the food allergy epidemic are everywhere. If you’re wondering why you didn’t hear as much about food allergies when you were...
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