Annual Allergy Study Day 2026
Next year's Annual Paediatric Allergy study day will be on Thursday the 19th Mar 2026. Theme will be "Children's Allergy at the Interface". Hold the d...
Risks from overuse of SABA leads to new asthma prescribing guidelines
UK Government reminds health care workers and patients of the risk of severe asthma and deaths from overuse of salbutamol or terbutaline inhalers. The...
Allergy is the most common chronic disease in Europe
The UK has some of the highest prevalence rates of allergic conditions in the world, with over 20% of the population affected by one or more allergic...
Peanut weaning diet drastically reduces the risk of developing severe allergy.
Study published in NEJM Evidence in May 2024 shows that peanut consumption starting in infancy and continuing to age 5 years provides lasting toleranc...
Medical supervised off the shelf introduction of foods to reduce allergy in children
The Natasha Clinical Trial is in progress in hospitals in England. The aim is to give children with milk and peanut allergy these foods, starting in v...
Successful peanut desensitisation using a skin patch
Allergists from Royal Manchester Children's Hospital, North West of England contributed to a large international multicentre study of 362 children age...
Adrenaline refractory anaphylaxis
Some patients with anaphylaxis will not respond to adrenaline auto-injectors. These patients are likely to be in shock, when adrenaline fails to be ab...
Chronic urticaria is an autoimmune disease
Although acute urticaria is often caused by an allergy, chronic urticaria is now recognized as an autoimmune disease, usually caused by production of...