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Americans With Food Allergies Are Getting a Bad Deal

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This article was originally published by Undark Magazine.

When Ina Chung, a Colorado mother, first fed packaged foods to her infant, she was careful to read the labels. Her daughter was allergic to peanuts, dairy, and eggs, so products containing those ingredients were out. So were foods with labels that said they “may contain” the allergens.

Chung felt like this last category suggested a clear risk that wasn’t worth taking. “I had heard that the ingredient labels were regulated. And

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Newfound immune cells are responsible for long-lasting allergies

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Allergy sufferers may one day be able to erase the source of their congestion, itchy skin and swollen lips and throat thanks to two studies that have uncovered elusive immune cells that maintain allergies over the long haul, often for a lifetime.

A specialized type of immune cell called type 2 memory B cells or MBC2s hold the memory of proteins that cause allergies, two independent groups of researchers report February 7 in Science Translational Medicine. Memory B cells

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Exercise slashes cancer risk, experts warn of tick bite allergies, and women struggle to find maternity care

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The March of Dimes’ latest report, “Where You Live Matters: Maternity Care Deserts and the Crisis of Access and Equity,” identifies all U.S. counties that lack prenatal care. (iStock)

PREGNANCY PERILS – More than a third (36%) of U.S. counties are considered “maternity care deserts.” Here’s why this matters. Continue reading…

DEMENTIA-DEPRESSION CONNECTION – Experts explore links and risks. Continue reading…

LIFE-THREATENING ALLERGY – Alpha-Gal Syndrome — also known as the “red-meat allergy” or the “tick bite meat allergy” —

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The Growing Battle Over Infant Milk Allergies

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This article was originally published by Undark Magazine.

For Taylor Arnold, a registered dietitian nutritionist, feeding her second baby was not easy. At eight weeks old, he screamed when he ate and wouldn’t gain much weight. Arnold brought him to a gastroenterologist, who diagnosed him with allergic proctocolitis—an immune response to the proteins found in certain foods, which she narrowed down to cow’s milk.

Cow’s-milk-protein allergies, or CMPA, might be on the rise—following a similar trend in other children’s

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Nanny state guidance has left thousands of babies wrongly diagnosed with milk allergies

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Thousands of babies are being wrongly diagnosed with milk allergy because of a ‘perfect storm’ of flawed GP guidance and parents’ increasing paranoia about food allergies, experts have warned.

Researchers now estimate that up to 74 per cent of diagnoses of milk allergies could be wrong.

The study, which involved 1,300 babies, noted that the diagnosis guidelines used by doctors mistook common problems in childhood for milk allergies – such as excessive crying, regurgitating milk and loose stools.

Combined with

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