Antibiotics Causing Allergic Reactions
Saturday, February 28, 2015 at 9:16AM 2/24/2015: Viaskin(r) Data Presented at AAAAI Meeting Show Safety and Efficacy in the Treatment of Food Allergies
Some research is being done and presented by DBV Technologies on a product called Viaskin for treating food allergies through Epicutaneous Immunotherapy (EPIT®). It appears that rather than eating tiny amounts of peanut like with sublingual immunotherapy treatment (SLIT) this method puts the food onto the skin and treats the allergic person in that way which is apparently a safer from a reaction perspective. [1]
2/23/2015: New Study Shows Introducing Peanut Early in Life Prevents Development of Peanut Allergy
“Investigators tested the hypothesis that regularly eating foods containing peanut – if started during within the first year of life – could elicit a protective immune response rather than an allergic reaction….By the age of 5, just 3 percent of the children who ate the snack developed peanut allergy, while 17 percent in the avoidance group developed peanut allergy.” [2]
2/23/2015: Antibiotics On Food Causing Children To Have Allergic Reactions To Fruits, Vegetables
Farmers are treating fruits and vegetables with an antibiotic called streptomycin that keeps bacteria, fungi and algae from growing on the foods. Children are reacting to the fruits and vegetables, sometimes with anaphylaxis, even though they are not allergic to those foods. The amount of antibiotic may vary. [3]