In a few hours, we enter a new year and a new decade (depending on whether one counts from zero to nine or from one to ten) with hope for the world and for ourselves. The new year is also the start of people being able to buy marijuana in Illinois for recreational use. According […]
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Maternal Diet And Preventing Childhood Allergies: Still Many Unknowns
One of the most frequently asked questions of allergists–besides “Why are there more people with allergies” (for which there is no single answer and is still considered to be due to multiple possibilities ranging from antibiotic overuse to diesel exhaust)— is: What can pregnant and postpartum women do to prevent food allergies and other allergic […]
Microplastics: More Than Just One Word Needed For Understanding Allergies?
The October 1st issue of the Annals of Internal Medicine included a research article that caught my attention because of the unusual topic: microplastic substances in human stool. With the news in recent years about microscopic particles of plastic being found inside plastic water bottles, I was curious about whether the patients who were studied […]