Current Allergy Related News (Jan 19)

Have Americans Gone Nuts Over Nut Allergies?
TIME – USA
Experts don’t disagree that the incidence of food allergy has increased, but there isn’t much consensus about why. Some researchers suggest that an overly …

http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1869095,00.html?imw=Y

Prenatal Nutrition, Postnatal Allergy Protection
U.S. News & World Report – Washington,DC,USA
Appleyard recommends avoiding nuts, peanuts and shellfish while you’re pregnant to reduce the risk of your child developing a food allergy. …

http://health.usnews.com/articles/health/healthday/2009/01/04/prenatal-nutrition-postnatal-allergy-protection.html

Countdown to better health
Chicago Tribune – United States
9Allergy-friendly: The number of people who claim to suffer from food allergies, intolerances or sensitivities continues to grow, creating a lucrative …

http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/food/chi-health-trends-7jan07,0,180787.story

Of Mice and Peanuts: A new mouse model for peanut allergy
EurekAlert (press release) – Washington,DC,USA
Chicago researchers report the development of a new mouse model for food allergy that mimics symptoms generated during a human allergic reaction to peanuts. …

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2009-01/nioa-oma011209.php

Recipes for Health New Options for Allergy-Free Pastas
New York Times – United States
By MARTHA ROSE SHULMAN An allergy to gluten used to mean a life without pasta, but no more. A gluten-free pasta e fagiole shows how much noodles have …

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/12/health/nutrition/12recipehealth.html?_r=1

Food Allergies – What You Don’t Know Can Hurt You
Rocklin and Roseville Today – Rocklin,CA,USA
Patients will often tell me: “I don’t have any food allergies” or “I have already been tested by my doctor.” The knowledge in the popular culture and …

http://www.rocklintoday.com/news/templates/diabetes_information.asp?articleid=6967&zoneid=53

Mom finds peanut-free preschool for daughter
Lexington Dispatch – Lexington,NC,USA
That means no treats from places such as Krispy Kreme and Fancy Pastry, explained Cooley, who also receives information from the Food Allergy Anaphylactic …

http://www.the-dispatch.com/article/20090112/ARTICLES/901120299/1005/NEWS?Title=Mom_finds_peanut_free_preschool_for_daughter

FDA: No Suicide Risk From Singulair
WebMD – USA
Ezekowitz notes that ever since the FDA’s review began, the American College of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology and the American Academy of Allergy, …

http://www.webmd.com/asthma/news/20090113/fda-no-suicide-risk-from-singulair

Teen Health Tips: Food Allergies
Examiner.com – USA
by Nicole Williams, Baltimore Teenagers Examiner If you have or have ever had food allergies, you know that they can be a pain and doctors are diagnosing …

http://www.examiner.com/x-2116-Baltimore-Teenagers-Examiner~y2009m1d14-Teen-Health-Tips-Food-Allergies

Current News (Jan 1)

Medina family and schools take on food allergies
WKYC-TV – Cleveland,OH,USA
As a result, teachers, custodians and bus drivers are taught how to handle a child with a severe food allergy. The children with food allergies have their …

http://www.wkyc.com/news/local/news_article.aspx?storyid=101772&catid=3

Managing food allergies abroad
CNN – USA
By Colleen Long (Budget Travel) — At a London restaurant three years ago, Olivia Giovetti, a Los Angeles writer with a severe allergy to hazelnuts, …

http://www.cnn.com/2008/TRAVEL/traveltips/12/29/food.allergies.abroad/

Allergies shouldn’t cause stress during the holidays
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle – Rochester,NY,USA
It often helps to tell a loved one that worrying about the food allergy is detracting from your enjoyment of their company. If possible ask that a food …

http://www.democratandchronicle.com/article/20081225/LIVING01/812250309/1032/LIVING

Food allergy: Local family must watch what they eat
Temple Daily Telegram – Temple,TX,USA
Both parents have allergies, but not to food. The thought is that the child inherits the capacity to develop an allergy from the parent, but not to any …

http://www.tdtnews.com/story/2008/12/24/54622/

Report: Mislabeled Foods Pose Health Risks
CBS2 Chicago – Chicago,IL,USA
Read more in our Privacy Policy Parents of the growing number of children with severe food allergies have to wage a constant battle to monitor what their …

http://cbs2chicago.com/consumer/food.allergies.mislabeling.2.892070.html

Clay family deals with nut allergies
Florida Times-Union – Jacksonville,FL,USA
They are among the four out of every 100 children who have a food allergy, a number that has grown 18 percent in the past 10 years, according to the US …

http://www.jacksonville.com/community/my_clay_sun/2008-12-20/clay_family_deals_with_nut_allergies

Boy, 6, dies in street after suspected allergy attack
Scotsman – United Kingdom
Anaphylaxis is a severe allergic reaction to a food or other allergen, with symptoms including raised blood pressure, breathing difficulties and swelling of …

http://news.scotsman.com/scotland/Boy-6-dies-in-street.4810980.jp

Charges dropped in allergy death of patient at Elgin Mental Health …
Chicago Tribune – United States
… June 20 and died after being fed fish despite warnings, including notes on his chart and special colored cards on his food tray, that he was allergic. …

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-allergy-death-19dec19,0,4761281.story

Cost Cutting Website For Those With Food Allergies
CBS 4 – Miami,FL,USA
About 12 million Americans suffer from some type of food allergy. Many of those can be deadly and going to the grocery store can be confusing and costly. …

http://cbs4.com/local/allergies.food.allergy.2.889649.html

Preventing Food Allergy—Is It Possible?
U.S. News & World Report – Washington,DC,USA
For reasons not totally understood, food allergies—to peanuts and eggs and fish, for example—are on the rise, and affected children are two to four times as …

http://health.usnews.com/articles/health/allergy-and-asthma/2008/12/15/preventing-food-allergy–is-it-possible.html

Nut Bans in Schools May Be Spurring Hysteria
Washington Post – United States
12 (HealthDay News) — Peanut and other food allergies are on the rise, with more and more children being diagnosed with potentially life-threatening …

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/12/AR2008121201282.html