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The latest Allergy news from News Medical |
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 | | |  Cow's Milk Allergy Symptoms Cow’s milk is made up of different components such as milk sugar, proteins (casein and whey), and fat. Because of this, it is highly possible to develop allergies from the formula. Research findings show that 1 out of 50 infants are allergic to cow’s milk; however, the condition is usually outgrown by age three to five years. | |
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| | | | |  Nearly all school nurses participating in a national survey (96 percent) reported that staff at their school received training on handling severe allergic reactions to food. Over 80 percent asserted that their school had an emergency epinephrine auto-injector on hand to stop a potentially life-threatening allergic reaction. | | | | |  Allergies are on the rise in Africa, but with too few specialists to treat them, and a parallel increase in immune deficiency diseases, the situation is worse than we thought. | | | | |  Asthma is a chronic ailment characterized by marked mucosal inflammation and spasm of the bronchial musculature lining the bronchial passages and lungs. This results in difficulty in breathing, cough, excessive mucus secretion, and wheezing sounds during breathing. | | | | |  Adora A. Lin, M.D., Ph.D., an attending physician in Children's department of Allergy and Immunology, was awarded $240,000 to improve understanding of how children's immune systems tolerate or react to certain food allergens--sometimes triggering a cascade of side effects that can be fatal. | |
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