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Sublingual and oral immunotherapy shows promise for milk allergy

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Sublingual and oral immunotherapy shows promise for milk allergy
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Sublingual and oral immunotherapy may help some children with milk allergy, but clinical desensitization is quickly lost and systemic reactions occur with oral therapy, a new study shows. “We found that both sublingual and oral immunotherapy benefited children with...

New report focuses on managing food allergy in children

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New report focuses on managing food allergy in children
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Managing food allergy in infants, children and adolescents is nothing short of challenging, for a whole host of reasons. A State-of-the-Art Review Article in the November issue of Pediatrics summarizes current U.S. guidelines for the diagnosis and management of food allergy that...

Efficacy of sublingual immunotherapy for grass pollen allergy sustained over time

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Efficacy of sublingual immunotherapy for grass pollen allergy sustained over time
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A regimen of pre-seasonal and seasonal sublingual immunotherapy (SLIT) for grass pollen allergy reduces symptoms by more than a third after three pollen seasons, a multicenter team reports in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology online August 1. The treatment is well...