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James, a 5th grader, uses MedlinePlus from the National Library of Medicine to better understand his peanut allergy. He shares this information with his class and everyone understands his health issue better, thanks to MedlinePlus!

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Think I said it all, I have an allergy to Barley grass and Barely wheat, if I eat/drink either I get an very itchy mouth, throat then very sick for a time – varying on how much I consume. A bottle of one of those "super foods" drinks will make me sick for anything up to two weeks – vomiting and such. If anyone can provide any information I’d be very grateful – links to sites etc.. or any advice for how to deal with my allergy if I accidentally consume some.

i would suggest that you visit a nutritionist. he or she will look to the root of your problem instead of trying to mask the symptoms like conventional medicine tends to do.

you will get personalized tips on things you should eat, and how you can manage your allergy.

How would you know if you are allergic to something but you don’t recognise

You don`t really know…if you don`t recognize.
If you get any bumbs (hives), swelling, itchy. stinging, anything different really. That`s how you would know. Otherwise you could go to the doctors and they would help you for sure.

I want a simple latex bracelet (the popular stretchy wrist bands). I need penicillin allergy information on it, or one of those international alert symbols. It must be internationally understood. Links to websites are helpful!

http://www.medicalert.org/home/Homegradient.aspx

That is where I got my son’s bracelets from. He is allergic to Tree nuts. They had the nylon sports type bracelets. I’m not sure about the stretchy kinds though.

Hi,
I have recently developed post nasal drip, and think it could be allergy related. I have never been allergic to anything before, so have no idea what is causing the problem. I think the allergy must just have developed out of nowhere.
Anyway, i really want to get to the bottom of this and want to get allergy tested. When you get allergy tested do they test you for possible allergy’s to everything that you may be exposed to? what if you’re allergic to something they don’t test you for?
Any information is appreciated,
thanks so much.

Keep in mind it also could be Non-allergic Rhinitis. If you go for allergy testing, ask for the list of things they tested you for.

If a food allergy is suspected in an infant, what information is NOT needed?

a. Whether the infant had been ill prior to problems arising

b. What laboratory tests confirmed specific allergies

c. Whether any other family members have food allergies

d. Whether wheat, eggs or peanut butter have been introduced into the infant’s diet

that’s simple its A,
just because if other family members have allergies the baby is likely to have the same. also the ones listed in D are the most common allergies. also B can conform if a child has allergies

My one year old son was just diagnosed with an allergy to beef pork and milk does anyone know where I can get anymore information on this??

My 2 year old daughter has shown allergy to beef (immunocap 0.75), milk, meggs and peanut. Recently I was told that bison meat may not have the same potential for allergenicity as cow beef. Is there cross-reactivity? What is the percentage of children that will outgrow a beef allergy?

To help respond to your question, I obtained input from dr. Stephen Taylor of the Univ of Nebraska, a leading expert in food allergy. His response is enclosed below. I have also enclosed abstracts of relevant reports by Dr. Sampson’s group and the Italian investigator to whom I think Dr. Taylor referred. I should mention that a 0.75 kU/L level of IgE antibodies is not very impressive but could still be associated with clinical sensitivity to a food. Therefore, I would recommend that any clinical oral challenge trial being considered should be carried out cautiously using graded amounts (starting with very small amounts of well cooked meat) under close medical observation in a facility equipped to treat acute allergic reactions, including anaphylaxis .

Dr Taylor’s comments:

We searched through our extensive database of food allergy literature and found no reference whatsoever to bison/buffalo meat allergy. However, I would definitely hesitate to conclude that bison is not allergenic. One of my famous sayings: Absence of evidence does not necessarily equal evidence of absence.

I would note that the allergies to beef, pork and chicken are related to bovine serum albumin, porcine serum albumin, and chicken serum albumin respectively. Hugh Sampson and also a group in have studied beef allergy and observed that beef-allergic patients tend to react to less well cooked (rare) beef. Apparently the allergenicity of BSA is heat-labile as well done beef tends to be tolerated.

Since there is some similarity between serum albumins from various species

in terms of sequence homology, I would be very careful about feeding

undercooked bison to this child also.

I am not so reliant on the specific beef IgE level because I am not sure how good the CAP might be for this food. I can believe that Pharmacia has few positive sera to evaluate in this case so reliability is more questionable.

You might ask this fellow to read the papers on beef allergy by Sampson (am traveling and cannot remember the name of the key Italian investigator). Maybe his daughter can tolerate well cooked beef but I would not wish to advocate this unless he is comfortable with it. I am always reluctant to encourage trying such strategies at home but perhaps this fellow has the capability to do so with more confidence but I would want it to be his decision for sure.

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Nutrition. 2000 Jun;16(6):454-7. Related Articles, Links

Beef allergy in children. Fiocchi A, Restani P, Riva E. Department of Pediatrics, San Paolo Biomedical Institute, University of Milan Medical School, Milan, Italy.

Beef allergy was poorly known before the ’90s. Since then, a number of papers appeared elucidating the nature, epidemiology, and symptoms of beef allergy in children allergic to cow’s milk and children suffering from atopic dermatitis. It is now clear that beef allergy is not an infrequent occurrence, with an incidence between 3. 28% and 6.52% among children with atopic dermatitis, its incidence may be as much as 0.3% in the general population. A diagnosis of beef allergy must be supported by skin prick tests, RASTs, and challenges. The specificity and sensitivity according to type of test and the type of extract, however, remains to be evaluated. Despite the fact that other allergens can be sensitizing, the major beef allergen is bovine serum albumin (BSA). Beef-sensitive children are also sensitized to ovine serum albumin, as well as to other serum albumins; therefore, the use of alternative meats in beef-allergic children must be carefully evaluated on an individual basis. Because industrial heat processing is more efficient than domestic cooking in reducing reactivity in beef-sensitive children, freeze-drying and homogenization may support the introduction of processed beef into the diet of beef-allergic children.

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J Allergy Clin Immunol. 1997 Mar;99(3):293-300. Related Articles, Links

Clinical reactivity to beef in children allergic to cow’s milk.

Werfel SJ, Cooke SK, Sampson HA. Department of Pediatrics, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21287, .

BACKGROUND: Cow’s milk is one of the most common food allergens in children.

Limited information is available on the prevalence of reactivity to a related food source, beef. The purposes of this study were to examine the prevalence of symptomatic sensitivity to beef in a selected pediatric population and to determine the frequency of concomitant reactivity to cow’s milk and beef.

METHODS: Children referred for assessment of atopic dermatitis and possible food hypersensitivity were evaluated for symptomatic reactivity to beef by double-blind placebo-controlled food challenges (DBPCFCs) and subsequent open feedings of beef. Sodium dodecyl-sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE), immunoblot, and immunodot blot analyses were performed with patients’ sera on preparations of beef extracts subjected to different cooking conditions: raw (no heating), medium, and well-cooked.

RESULTS: Eleven of 335 children referred for evaluation of atopic dermatitis and possible food hypersensitivity were found to have symptomatic sensitivity to beef; eight were also sensitive to milk, as demonstrated in previous DBPCFCs. Eight patients reacted to beef during DBPCFC, and three tolerated beef in a DBPCFC and well-cooked beef in an open challenge but reacted to ingestion of less well-cooked beef. SDS-PAGE of raw beef revealed at least 24 protein fractions. Several protein bands in raw beef appeared to denature with heating. Bovine serum albumin and bovine gamma globulin were heat-labile in the beef extract, but six protein fractions persisted even after heating the beef extract for 2 hours at 85 degrees C. IgE from patients reacting to rare and well-cooked beef bound up to six of these heat-resistant fractions, but IgE from patients

reacting only to rare beef failed to bind any of these fractions with one exception. In addition, patients reacting to rare and well-cooked beef had specific IgE to a 17.8 kd fraction, which was only weakly recognized by one patient reacting only to rare beef. CONCLUSIONS: Specific IgE antibodies to heat-labile beef proteins might explain why some patients can tolerate well-cooked beef but not medium-rare and rare beef. Patients reacting only to rare beef may not need to maintain a complete beef elimination diet.

What kind of tests can an allergist/ immunologist perform to check for sun allergies and immune disorders that cause sun allergies?

Any information is appreciated!

Thanks

I have sun allergies.. I’m super sick right now..I have sle lupus. It’s the cause of alotta problems. Simple test