Allergic Reactions To Peanuts
Modified Food for Allergy: Could Peanut Allergies Be Relieved By "Franken-Peanuts?"
This is Part One of a weekly, 3-Part Series on Modified Foods For Food Allergies.
Part Two is about fermenting soy to reduce allergens.
Part Three is about modifying eggs to reduce allergic reactions.
Would you eat a peanut stripped of all that makes it a peanut - including the proteins that could cause a deadly allergic reaction?
When a food allergic person reacts adversely to a particular food they are, in fact, reacting to the protein in the food. So, some people (geneticists, mostly...
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Expert & Community Posts
Peanut Allergies and Anaphylaxis
By Sloane Miller , Health Expert...farmers, "has allocated nearly $5 million in food allergy education and research efforts... Read more »
Banishing Nuts from Georgetown University's Cafeteria
By Sloane Miller , Health Expert...kitchen facilities), and you have the makings of a food allergy nightmare. I was relatively... Read more »
Give Peanuts to the Peanut Allergic Child? Don't Try this at Home!
By James Thompson, MD , Health Expert...practices that for decades were thought to be sound allergy advice. The first oxymoron: For... Read more »
"Everyone's gone nuts..."?
By Sloane Miller , Health Expert...from which she culls her facts) she asserts the food allergy numbers, specifically regarding... Read more »
Modified Food for Allergy III: Changing Eggs to Make Them Less Allergic
By Sloane Miller , Health Expert...Allergies. Part One is about genetically modified peanuts. Part Two is about fermenting soy to... Read more »
Health Guide
How To Find Hidden Food Allergens
...that could cause an allergic reaction.But be mindful of hidden allergens. Dr. Andrew MacGinnitie, an allergy specialist at Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, said “Before the current FDA... Read more »Food Allergies: A Case of Mistaken Identity
A food allergy occurs when the body mistakes a food item for a harmful substance, and the immune system creates antibodies to protect itself. Once this mistaken identity occurs, every time a person... Read more »Genetically engineered foods
...cause an allergic reaction. For instance, if peanut genes are in tomatoes, could someone with a peanut allergy react to tomatoes? In January 2001, the FDA's Center for Food Safety and Applied... Read more »The "Big 8" Food Allergens
...food allergies and associated anaphylaxis appears to be on the rise. Risk factors associated with food allergy include: family history of asthma and allergies, genetic predisposition to allergic... Read more »Sinusitis: Causes
...Breakthrough research released in 2004 supports this theory. Researchers from the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases exposed immune cells from patients with chronic... Read more »Images
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Stopping Peanut Allergies
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Eating Nuts During Pregnancy Increases Childs Asthma Risk
August 01, 2008(Ivanhoe Newswire) You may want to limit the amount of nuts you eat while you're pregnant. A new study from the Netherlands finds expectant mothers... Read summary »
Allergy breakthrough may lower number of fatalities
July 21, 2009Scottish researchers have identified a molecule that they say may worsen allergic reactions. The immune hormone IL-33 appears to regulate the body's... Read summary »
Pregnant women may not need to give up peanuts
October 02, 2008Most doctors recommend that pregnant women avoid eating peanuts but new research has found that may not be necessary. Researchers studied 858... Read summary »
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