New research confirms the benefits, but few hospitals in the UK provide these services at present.
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There are still some serious issues around food labelling that must be addressed and enforcement is one of them.
Avoiding certain foods risks malnutrition.
With food allergies on the rise, it’s important to understand the role the skin plays in protecting or exposing us to reactions.
There has been a dramatic rise in life-threatening food allergies in the last few decades. Antibiotics, poor diet and C-sections have all been implicated. Now new evidence points to gut microbes.
A worrying lack of open-minded research means we do not know exactly why food allergy is on the rise.
Don’t try this at home, kids.
Stress makes people tired and irritable, but its dangers to the body do not stop there. Chemicals that were meant to work under an immediate threat harm organs in the body and can elevate blood pressure.
Canadians still love their meat, but consumers under 35 are three times more likely to consider themselves vegetarians or vegans than consumers who are 49 or older.
A new study has found some foods may contain allergens even if there’s no warning.
Parents are now advised to introduce foods like peanut and egg to infants before one year of age.
Younus, age 9, wants to know how people become allergic to food.
Why it’s so difficult to detect allergens in food – and what to do about it.
New research has found children who are born with overly active immune cells are more likely to develop allergies to milk, eggs, peanuts, wheat and other common foods.
Allergies are reactions caused by the immune system as it responds to environmental substances that are usually harmless. But we don’t yet have a cure or the ability to prevent them from developing.
When we think of antibiotic overuse, we don’t generally think of allergies. Research is beginning to suggest that maybe we should.
Rates of food allergies have increased over recent decades and are at an all-time high. While we don’t know the full extent of the allergy epidemic, the rate of hospitalisation for food allergies has quadrupled…
Every year thousands of new laws are introduced. Some of these are well publicised and debated, such as the recent changes to the rules on pornography, but others slip under the radar. Many are quite important…
Changing the bacteria in the gut could treat and prevent life-threatening allergies, according to research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) journal today. “These…
Giving children and adolescents with peanut allergies small doses of the peanut protein and increasing it over time to build up tolerance could help lessen the severity of their allergic reaction, according…
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Evidence and Translation Lead, National Allergy Centre of Excellence; Chief Investigator, Centre of Food Allergy Research; Associate Professor and Group Leader, Childhood Allergy & Epidemiology Group, Child Health Research Centre, The University of Queensland
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Child Health Research Centre, Faculty of Medicine, The University of Queensland
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Senior Lecturer in Immunology and Microbiology, University of Newcastle
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Paediatric Allergist and Gastroenterologist, Murdoch Children's Research Institute
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Post Doctoral researcher - Experimental and Translational Respiratory Medicine Research Group, University of Newcastle
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Professor in Immunology, University of Manchester
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Professor&Chair of Paediatrics | HMRI, University of Newcastle, Australia | Senior Staff Specialist Paediatric Respiratory&Sleep Medicine | John Hunter Children's Hospital, Australia, University of Newcastle
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Senior Staff Specialist in Paediatric Allergy and Immunology at John Hunter Children's Hospital Newcastle NSW Conjoint Lecturer in Paediatrics, University of Newcastle
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Associate Professor and Endowed Research Chair in Allergy, Asthma and the Environment, University of Manitoba
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Leonard C Harrison is a Friend of The Conversation.
Laboratory Head, WEHI (Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research)
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Professor of Molecular Biosciences, Queen's University Belfast
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Professor of Immunology and Chair of the Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Cornell University
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Lecturer in Law, Lancaster University
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Former Lecturer in Nutrition and Dietetics, King's College London
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Staff Specialist General Paediatrician at John Hunter Children's Hospital, Newcastle, Australia. Conjoint Lecturer & PhD student, University of Newcastle