Ragweed season traditionally starts in the Chicago area around August 10th because the ragweed plant pollinates according to the light/dark cycle. The peak ragweed counts occur in the last week of August and first half of September. As I’m seeing patients over the past two weeks who have uncontrolled symptoms from ragweed allergy, I look […]
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Asthma and COVID-19: Making Sense of Data
For the past three years, I have written about updates in peanut desensitization during the month of July. However, I have received questions about the risks of COVID-19 for those with asthma over the past month. So, this month’s blog will –for the 3rd month this year—be devoted to the medical condition affecting all of […]
A Nickel For Your Thoughts: Contact Dermatitis Allergens and Food Allergy
Tests that are considered proven for diagnosing food allergy have been skin tests, blood tests that look for IgE (the class of antibody associated with allergic diseases) and, if necessary, an office ingestion challenge. When the skin tests and blood tests are normal, the scientific conventional approach is to call a recurrent specific food reaction […]