Feeding infants peanut products early to PREVENT allergies, Hating Elmo, PP culinary skills, La Bamba, Amish nose sprays, Beanie Babies, BB & B!, allergy meds and much more…..
Rob and Matt discuss the new guidelines for introducing peanut products to young infants to prevent peanut allergies. We also discuss pets and allergies, the demise of Hahnemann/MCP, and finish off allergic rhinitis discussing treatments from environmental changes to oral antihistamines to nasal sprays and allergy shots. Plus, we sing again.
PP 010 Peanuts & Allergy Bibliography
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Another wonderful podcast! Thanks for the review.
-I agree with “no food panels” as there are too many false positives. You can order RAST for individual foods that are of interest (like hives immediately after eating egg for example). But skin tests are a little more sensitive (get the occasional false negative with RAST), so if if you think you are going to send the patient to the allergist, you can hold off on ordering anything.
-you are right, eating foods during pregnancy seems to have no impact on the baby’s food allergy
-go generic with rhinitis meds!
Thank you for mentioning climate change effects on increased pollen counts and longer duration of pollen season.