Well, I finally bought my Halloween goodies. Turns out, my best choice to avoid the top 8 allergens was simple enough - good old-fashioned Lays plain salted potato chips. Now, these treats are not certified gluten-free, dairy-free, egg-free or any other free, but the list of ingredients says it all: ...

Peanut allergies have been on the rise for the last decade. In fact, peanut allergies have doubled in the past 10 years, for both the US and the UK, until we now have a full 2 per cent of the population avoiding this allergen. Childhood is the normal time for ...

LONDON, ENGLAND – June Cutmore, a 71 year old grandmother, died on Tuesday when doctors at St. Bartholomew's Hospital in London, England gave her penicillin. Cutmore was wearing a red wristband at the time to alert medical staff to her allergy to the common antibiotic. In addition, Cutmore's son-in-law ...

The October issue of the Archives of Disease in Childhood has new recommendations for general pediatricians and family physicians for diagnosing and managing infant cow's milk protein allergy (CMPA). Statistics indicate from 5 per cent to 15 per cent of infants have a reaction to cow's milk protein, while true ...

CNN reported this week that new research from the CDC indicates that the incidence of allergies in children has risen almost 20 per cent. This is a shocking rise in allergies. Given the timing of that rise, it seems to me that most of the current theories in use ...