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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"peanut allergy"”.
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Peanut allergy: a prospective study of thresholds, co-factors, mediators and severity
Peanut allergy is a public health concern which affects a significant proportion of the population. Accidental exposure to peanut can cause severe and fatal reactions in peanut allergic individuals and currently their only safeguard is to practise careful avoidance. Identification and protection of …
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Peanut Allergy in Children: Relationships to Health-Related Quality of Life, Anxiety, and Parental Stress
… and parental stress in a sample of children with peanut allergy. 51 families were recruited to complete a series of measures including a demographic questionnaire, the Parenting Stress Index, a PedsQL 4.0, and a series of questions regarding their child's peanut allergy. Children completed a …
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Responses of Children Living with Peanut Allergy: The Need to See Beyond the Peanut-Free Lunch Table
<p>Peanut allergy (PA), because of its life-threatening characteristic and increased prevalence in the last 10 years, has been the subject of much recent research primarily centered on its cause and search for cure and less on the psychosocial effects of the diagnosis. Currently, the only way to …
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Evaluation of γ-Irradiated Peanut Extract as a Proper Immunogen for Immunotherapy in Murine Model of Peanut Allergy
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Peanut allergy is one of the most serious forms of IgE-mediated food hypersensitivity, and gamma irradiation has been applied widely for the preservation of food. Previous studies indicated that the capacity of IgE to binds to ovalbumin (OVA) and ovamucoid (OM) was …
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Modulation of Allergic Disease through the use of Th1-associated Vaccine Adjuvants
<p>The prevalence of allergic disease such as peanut (PN) allergy has increased within the last century. Environmental factors have been associated with an increased risk of developing allergic diseases. The severity of allergic diseases has also increased and clinical trials are investigating …
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The prevalence and patterns of IgE-mediated food allergy and sensitisation in South African children with atopic dermatitis
Background: The prevalence of food allergy in South Africa is unknown, but previously thought to be low, particularly in black South Africans. We hypothesised that food allergies would be low in Xhosa patients, even those at increased risk of food allergy such as children with atopic dermatitis …
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Identification and Analysis of Peanut and Soybean Cross Reacting Allergens in Korean Children Sensitive to Peanut
BACKGROUND: Peanut and soybean are among the most prevalent allergens of food hypersensitivity. They both belong to legume family and share high similarity in many parts of their seed storage proteins. the clinical manifestations of allergy to peanut and soybean are generally quiet distinct. And …
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Practical Epistemology: Essays on What to Think and What to Do
… needs to know that the sandwich does not contain peanuts, in order to give it to a child with a peanut allergy. The FDA needs "substantial evidence" of the efficacy of a new drug in order to approve it. This dissertation explores the relationship between ethics and epistemology, evidence and …
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Improving the management of allergic disease in adults.
… clinically and in research on the impact of allergy in children but not adults. It is often attributed to the idea that the nature of one’s allergy in childhood is fixed for life past a certain age. Subsequently, significant gaps have developed in how we care for adults with allergy. The aim …
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A cross-sectional study of Ig-E mediated food sensitisation and food allergy in an unselected population of South African children aged 12-36 months
Background: Food allergy (FA) is a significant and often life-threatening health problem affecting about 4-6% of children and their families globally. In some developed countries FA prevalence has reached 10% and it is believed that developing economies may follow a similar trend since there is a …
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Therapie der Erdnussallergie durch orale Immuntherapie
Einleitung: Die Erdnussallergie zählt zu den häufigsten Nahrungsmittelallergien im Kindesalter. Bereits kleine Mengen Erdnuss (EN) können zu schweren allergischen Reaktionen führen. EN ist der häufigste Auslöser einer lebensbedrohlichen Anaphylaxie bei Kindern und Jugendlichen. Im Gegensatz zu …
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Cloning, Expression, and Characterization of Ara h 3, a Major Peanut Allergen
… to food allergies in the western world and peanut is the most common. Currently, there are no medical treatments that can cure an individual of food allergy, so avoidance of the allergic food is the only option. In the United States, there are three immunodominant allergic proteins …