Annual Allergy Study Day 2025
This year's Annual Paediatric Allergy study day is scheduled for Thursday the 20th Mar 2025. Theme is "Streamlining Allergy Management". It will be he...
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...
On the milk ladder? Digestive biscuits no longer contain milk!
Many companies making digestive biscuits are changing their recipes. Most will no longer contain any baked milk. Thus there is no point in including t...