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Understanding how nut allergic consumers choose foods
Monday, 08 August 2011
The UK Food Standards Agency have released a report on a study they commissioned to investigate how people with peanut and tree nut allergies use food labels, and the types of strategies they adopt when selecting foods to minimise the risk of triggering an allergic reaction. Two papers based on the study findings have been published in peer-reviewed journals.
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Eating tolerated nuts may help nut allergic children
Monday, 08 August 2011
Researchers at the Flinders Medical Centre in South Australia have conducted a pilot study of 47 children with nut allergies which showed that in many cases when the children consumed nuts to which they were not allergic, their nut allergy went into remission.
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Food allergy affects 8% of USA children
Monday, 08 August 2011
A new study conducted by researchers at the Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University in Chicago, USA has estimated that approximately 8% of US children have some kind of food allergy. Of those children with a food allergy, almost 40% have a history of severe reactions, while 30% are allergic to multiple foods.
Hookworms make coeliacs feel better
Monday, 08 August 2011
Results have been reported from Phase 1b/2a of the clinical trial looking at the impact of chronic hookworm infection on the effects of gluten in a small number of patients with coeliac disease. Researchers reported their results showed "at best, weak trends" towards reduced numbers of gluten peptide-specific T cells in blood and histological damage following wheat challenge.
Ultrasound screening for milk allergy in infants
Monday, 08 August 2011
Doppler ultrasound could be used as a screening tool to diagnose children with cow's milk allergy, based on the findings of a study recently published in the American Journal of Roentgenology.
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