A new allergy medication is prompting clinicians to adjust their approach to oral food challenges — medically supervised tests in which clinicians give increasing doses of an allergen like peanut or ...

Living with a peanut allergy means navigating a world where a single bite could turn deadly. For the estimated 1.2 million Americans who face this reality daily, understanding how to respond when ...

Feeding babies peanut-containing foods as early as possible can help prevent peanut allergy, but a new study published in ...

For years, parents were told not to expose their babies to peanuts, to prevent a potentially dangerous allergy. But 10 years ago, a landmark study found the opposite to be true, stating that if babies ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Raw peanuts are less allergenic than roasted peanuts. Infants achieved tolerance with no symptoms after 2 months ...

For decades many parents were told to avoid giving infants peanuts but now, the evidence is flipping that guidance and fast. Recent large-scale analyses show that introducing peanut-containing foods ...

It was a question Dr. Gideon Lack asked often, when giving lectures to fellow allergists and pediatricians on the topic of food allergies: How many doctors in the room had a patient allergic to ...

A decade after a landmark study proved that feeding peanut products to young babies could prevent development of life-threatening allergies, new research finds the change has made a big difference in ...

In 2000 and the decade following, pediatricians recommended delaying the introduction of peanuts in babies and children until the age of three years to reduce this potentially fatal food allergy.