National Allergy Center

National Allergy Center provides state of the art food allergy diagnosis, treatment, and follow-up care to kids and adults.

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Corticosteroids are not effective for the treatment of acute anaphylaxis due to their slow onset of action (4 to 6 hours). Epinephrine is the only treatment for acute anaphylaxis - its time of onset is within minutes!

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A positive skin prick test to a nut might not mean an allergy. 46% of those not allergic to a nut have positive skin prick test (Clark and Ewan, 2003). Get a complete , accurate diagnosis!

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Why are some people allergic and some naturally tolerant to allergens? It seems that it’s related to microbes in the gut and the immune system. Early infancy is likely a critical time for immune development. Connect with a National Allergy Center expert to learn more.

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If you pass a baked egg challenge and then incorporate baked egg regularly into your diet you may be up to 14.6 times more likely to tolerate unbaked egg (e.g. scrambled) within approximately 3 years (Leonard et al, 2012).

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Based on survey data, the food categories with a high risk of undeclared hazelnut include cookies and chocolate products with reported occurrences of 0.3–27.7% and 1.4–65.3%, respectively (Do et al, 2018).

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Good news for kids under 2 years old with eczema! An open-label study showed Eucrisa (crisaborole) was well tolerated and effective in infants (3 to < 24 months) with mild-to-moderate eczema (Schlessinger et al, 2020). It could be a good steroid-free option for a lot of kids!

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Approximately 50% of peanut allergy is expected to occur in infants who do not show signs of eczema or egg allergy by 6 months and thus prior skin testing would only reduce the rate of reaction to peanut from less than 2% to less than 1% (Tang et al, 2018).

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In one study, 96% of food production companies had a food allergen control plan in place and nearly half (42%) had at least one food allergen-related recall within the past 5 years (Gupta et al, 2017).

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Conclusion: Exposure to cow's milk protein in the first 3 months of life was associated with a reduced risk of cow's milk allergy (Peters et al, 2019). Schedule a free phone consult to determine if early exposure or an early intervention food challenge is safe for your lil’ one.

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True or false? My child failed a skin test to a certain food so they are allergic and I should avoid that food. Maybe true, maybe false- skin tests can give you false positives. Schedule a free consult call and talk to a food allergy professional at National Allergy Center today.

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Food allergies have more than doubled over the last generation (Gupta et al, 2011).

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14,773 peanut OIT doses were analyzed and showed that 3.7% of home doses resulted in symptoms; only 0.8% of those required treatment! (Jones et al, 2009)

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Studies have shown that whether a maintenance dose is 1.25 or 12.5 peanuts, the chance of passing a challenge to 20+ peanuts is between 89% and 92% (Vickery et al, 2017).

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A parent survey showed that 12.4% of children with known peanut allergy had accidental exposures. 37% of the accidental exposures occurred at home (Cherkaoui et al, 2015)

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Benadryl, Zyrtec, Claritin, Allegra, so many choices! So what’s the difference?

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Soy is in so many foods! Luckily, 50% of children with soy allergy outgrow their allergy by age 7 years (Savage et al, 2010).