Sentences with phrase «peanut allergies»

Feeding peanuts to someone with peanut allergies, for example, can result in life - threatening anaphylactic shock.

A study in 2003 found that the number of children with peanut allergies doubled from 1997 to 2002.

About 1.5 million people in the United States have peanut allergies, and the majority of the fatal reactions occur in teenagers, said Anne Munoz - Furlong, founder of the Food Allergy and Anaphylaxis Network, a food - allergy advocacy group in Fairfax, Va..

There are no state policies on peanut allergies, which means the issue is handled differently from school to school.

Nine of the school's 576 students are known to have peanut allergies, but there have been no incidents this school year that required medical intervention.

The incidence of peanut allergies in children, now about 1 in 125, doubled between 1997 and 2002, according to a study by Sicherer.

For Caryn Tatelli, whose 6 - year - old daughter, Susan, is among the Oak Terrace students coping with peanut allergies, the pilot program has proved its worth.

This is a great idea for kids with peanut allergies because it does provide it's own placemat and prevents possible contamination.

Unless having the food in the room causes your allergies (i.e., peanut allergies) to act up, don't expect the host to completely change the menu.

Nine of the school's 576 students have peanut allergies, and there have been no incidents this year requiring medical intervention.

According to Reuters Health, the UK researchers found that a lot of children (72 out of 79 8 - year - olds studied) did not have full blown peanut allergies.

A ground - breaking new study is changing the way health care professionals, allergists, and parents around the world think about peanut allergies.

But they don't outgrow peanut allergies.

«More children have peanut allergies and they're getting older,» said Dr. Scott Sicherer of the Jaffe Food Allergy Institute at Mt. Sinai School of Medicine in New York.

Arlington Heights — Mary Elson's article on peanut allergies («An allergic life in a nutty world,» Tempo, March 14) was interesting, but here is additional information on the subject of food allergies.

And now, a new study in the New England Journal of Medicine has found that surprisingly enough, giving peanuts to babies who are least 4 months old might actually help prevent peanut allergies from forming.

Israeli children eat more peanut products each month and start eating peanut products at a much younger age, so that study postulated that feeding children peanuts earlier may prevent peanut allergies from developing.

Unlike allergies that kids outgrow, peanut allergies are lifelong.

A recent study published in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology found that the percentage of children with peanut allergies has doubled in the last five years.

While her intended point of highlighting hidden ingredients in foods that may cause allergies was important, she needs to realize that people with peanut allergies may very well not be allergic to other nuts, known as «tree» nuts.

Peanut allergies have especially increased in Western countries but are now showing up in other parts of the world, such as in Asia and Africa.

The number of children with peanut allergies alone has doubled in the past decade.

Peanut allergies are the most prevalent of food allergies and can cause life - threatening anaphylactic shock, resulting in about 100 deaths a year, according to the National Institutes of Health.

Peanut allergies, in particular, are one of the most dangerous allergies for children and babies, because it's usually an allergy that kids don't grow out of and it can be life - threatening.

While the return to peanuts may be nostalgic for some travelers, families of children with peanut allergies are upset, to the point of canceling a trip on Northwest and vowing to fly only on airlines that don't serve peanuts.

Some experts even suggest that the current increase of food allergies, especially peanut allergies which have doubled in the past ten years, is actually a consequence of misdiagnosis, a concept that was reported on this site by Lela Davidson.

Steady and controlled consumption of peanuts has led to some children overcoming their peanut allergies - but don't try this at home

Take this time to also talk to your kids about kids with peanut allergies.

The prevalence of peanut allergies has substantially increased during the past several years.

You may have read last week that the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) has issued new guidance on children and peanut allergies - advice which completely upends what parents have been told in the past.

«Hypotheses as to the reason for the increased rate of peanut allergies in children include increased allergenicity of roasted forms of peanut, early introduction of peanut when the immune system is immature, delayed introduction of peanut into the diet, and environmental exposures to peanut without ingestion.»

Until 2008, experts had recommended that children who were at high risk for peanut allergies best avoid foods containing peanuts until at least three years of age.

I recently heard the same thing about peanut allergies and introducing them early.

You may have read last week that the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) has issued new guidance on children and peanut allergies — advice which completely upends what parents have been told in the past.

Entitled «The Peanut Puzzle,» the article ponders a question currently vexing the medical community (and many parents): why are food allergies, including peanut allergies, so clearly on the rise — and what can be done to prevent them?

While allergy experts believe this new guidance could reduce the number of peanut allergies in this country «by tens of thousands,» some parents of kids already allergic to peanuts are very concerned about how the advice will be interpreted and applied.

The new guidance is based in part on a study which found that Jewish children in Israel had fewer peanut allergies than Jewish children living in Britain.

Peanut butter in pregnancy, for women who were not allergic to peanuts, actually may help prevent peanut allergies in children.

Of course, the Peanut Butter Diet isn't suitable for those with peanut allergies, although other nut oils can be used, or olive or canola oil for those avoiding nuts altogether.

Peanut allergies are usually the most difficult, though every child is different with reactions.

This year one of my children has a child in his room with peanut allergies, and there is also a diabetic child in his room.

Up until that point, I had thought of peanut allergies as a faraway dilemma for which I saw more of the precautions than the problem: strict bans on school grounds; warnings on food packaging; pretzels on airplanes.

Peanut allergies are a growing concern, and with 1 in 13 children in America having a life - threatening food allergy, the last thing you want to do is inadvertantly kill a child you're hoping to feed.

They demanded that I live in the dorm, and their awareness was more about peanut allergies than celiac disease or other intolerances.

Dr. Wesley Burks, chief of Pediatric Allergy and Immunology at Duke Medical Center, is part of a potentially groundbreaking study aimed at finding out whether children with peanut allergies can be desensitized to peanuts and eventually cured of the allergy altogether.

Peanut butter was eaten by my husband for years; however he no longer does, now that we better understand the severity of peanut allergies.

She was very interested in pursuing the legislation as a sponsor, and she had a keen interest in the topic because her grandson has severe peanut allergies.

He also shared about a study that compared the rate of peanut allergies in Israeli vs. UK Jewish communities.

On Facebook, one father expressed the following concern: «Our older son had milk, soy, egg white and peanut allergies, all of which resolved themselves by his second birthday.

The prevalence of peanut allergies was found to be 10 fold lower for those living in Israel — where a popular early feeding food is the nut - based Bamba — compared to those living in the UK.