The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved Xolair as the first and only medicine for people with one or more food allergies after the clinical trial data for the injectable asthma medication ...

If you didn't have food allergies as a child, is it possible to develop them as an adult? The short answer is yes. But the reasons why are much more complicated. Preschoolers are about four times more ...

Grace Guthrie was vacationing with her boyfriend in January 2020 when the couple stopped at a café to eat lunch. Guthrie, a 29-year-old dietetic intern at the University of Kansas Medical Center, knew ...

SAN ANTONIO — Although data are sparse, management strategies for children with food allergies often can be applied to adults, according to a presentation at the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & ...

Anecdotal and survey evidence suggests that adult-onset food allergies may be increasing. “We don’t talk about it enough, but adult food allergy is real,” Ruchi Gupta, MD, MPH, told Medscape Medical ...

In a world where a trace of peanut could send some adults to the emergency room, a major breakthrough is offering new hope. A new study has shown that oral immunotherapy—a treatment already helping ...

Most people with life-threatening allergies do not use or carry the epinephrine autoinjectors (EAIs) that doctors prescribe for them, according to a new study of a large, representative sample of the ...

Seasonal allergies happen when your body's immune system overreacts to ordinarily harmless things in the environment, like pollen. This overreaction can cause symptoms such as sneezing, a runny nose, ...

Dr. Anna Wolfson says she sees dangerous misuse of the allergy medication diphenhydramine in her clinic every day. “If someone has an allergic reaction to a food, people will say, ‘Don’t worry, I have ...

Two common allergy medications could cause a severe reaction in some people who stop using it. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued an alert related to cetirizine (Zyrtec) or ...