Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Patients are influenced by extreme stories they see on social media. Testing children with atopic dermatitis for ...

A food allergy is a serious medical condition where your body's immune system reacts to certain foods like they're invaders. If your child has food allergies, an essential part of keeping them safe is ...

A real-world study from UVA Health Children's Hospital has shown that early peanut oral immunotherapy (epOIT) is safe and effective in desensitizing young children to peanuts. 27 children completed ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Children were participating in oral food and drug challenges. Ommie led children and caregivers in deep ...

The use of virtual reality (VR) during skin prick testing (SPT) significantly reduced procedural anxiety, fear, and pain in children while achieving 100% compliance compared with standard care.

What is the earliest reasonable age to achieve adequate allergy testing results? Is radioallergosorbent test (RAST) equivalent to skin testing at an early age? For immunoglobulin (Ig) E-mediated ...

A multimillion-pound industry has sprung up promising it can detect sensitivities to certain ingredients with a simple remote finger prick test. But the results can be misleading – and even dangerous ...

Research suggests that introducing kids to food allergens early in life can help—but that the same might not be true for other types of allergies. Here's what to know. Studies have suggested that ...

Children with milder forms of peanut sensitivity may be able to overcome their allergy by consuming increasing amounts of store-bought peanut butter, a new study suggests. Subscribe to read this story ...

Sniffles and sneezes are an inevitable part of growing up. But if your child has a lingering runny nose and cough – or both appear around the same time each year – it could be seasonal allergies.

New research shows how the early environment shapes allergy risk, revealing how microbial exposure trains the immune system.