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Egg allergic children did not have adverse reactions to single dose of influenza vaccine in multi-center study ANN ARBOR, Mich., Jan. 22, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Egg allergic children, including those with a history of anaphylaxis to egg, can safely receive a single dose of the seasonal influenza vaccine, according to a new study from the University of Michigan. Historically, the CDC recommended that the seasonal influenza vaccine not be administered to egg allergic...

Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online A new study suggests that children who have egg allergies may benefit by just being exposed to the very food they are allergic to. Researchers treated 35 children with egg oral immunotherapy (OIT) and found that eleven of them experience long-term elimination of egg-related allergic reactions. The rest of the children who were exposed to eggs were able to tolerate higher doses of egg, with only mild or no symptoms. The study...

Financial strain and competing priorities at home may contribute to greater number of hospital readmissions of children with asthma from single-parent homes compared to dual-parent households, according to a new study presented at the American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology Annual Meeting in Boston, Nov. 3-8. The study, performed at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center showed that children in single-parent homes were 50 percent more likely to return to the hospital...

According to a new preclinical study, researchers have turned off peanut allergy by tricking the immune system. Researchers attached peanut proteins onto blood cells and reintroduced them to the body.  This method could one day be able to target more than one food allergy at a time. "We think we've found a way to safely and rapidly turn off the allergic response to food allergies," Paul Bryce, an assistant professor of medicine in the division of allergy-immunology at Northwestern...

Recent studies show most egg-allergic individuals can receive the flu vaccine safely under the care of their allergist or immunologistHaving an egg allergy is not a reason to avoid getting the 2010-2011 flu vaccination.According to new recommendations by the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology website, anyone with a history of suspected egg allergy should first be evaluated by an allergist or immunologist for appropriate testing and diagnosis but can probably receive the...

A new report in Pediatrics shows that the flu shot is safe for most kids with egg allergies. There are concerns about giving the flu shot to kids with egg allergies because all flu vaccines are made in chicken eggs.  According to the American College of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology, about one in 60 U.S. children have this type of allergy. However, Dr Lynda Schneider of Children's Hospital in Boston, one of the study's authors, told Reuters that today's influenza vaccines contain only...

FREDERICKSBURG, Va., Oct. 22 /PRNewswire/ -- Once supply catches up with the immediate demand for H1N1 "swine" flu vaccine, some allergy patients who could benefit from the vaccine may needlessly avoid it due to confusion over who should, and should not, be vaccinated, cautions Dr. Peter R. Smith, a board-certified allergist and clinical immunologist with Allergy Partners of Fredericksburg, Virginia. Dr. Smith also serves as a physician adviser of the Planning District 16 School Health Team...

Hopkins Children's oral immunotherapy study shows promise, but do not try this at home.Giving children with milk allergies increasingly higher doses of milk over time may ease, and even help them completely overcome, their allergic reactions, according to the results of a study led by the Johns Hopkins Children's Center and conducted jointly with Duke University.Despite the small number of patients in the trial "“ 19 "“ the findings are illuminating and encouraging, investigators say,...

Researchers at National Jewish Medical and Research Center are conducting trials to evaluate a method to prevent allergic reactions to food. They are feeding peanut- and egg-allergic people increasing doses of an investigational protein extract from the foods to see if they can induce the participants' immune systems to tolerate the food."We hope these trials will lead to the development of the first active, preventive treatment for food allergies," said pediatric allergist David Fleischer,...