Last July, I wrote about food oral immunotherapy (OIT) with the focus on currently available and potentially available options for peanut allergy. As of this month, only protocols adapted from academic medical centers have been an option and are used by just some of the allergists in clinical practice. Over the past year, approval of...

     School food allergy action plans are now the norm because of the increasing prevalence of various food allergies over the past 25 years.  For parents and for medical professionals, they seem to be just more documents amongst an endless list of bureaucratic forms to complete.  However, just as we discussed last month with asthma...

Over the 25 years of treating patients with allergic conditions, I have witnessed changes in the prevalence, prevention advice and treatment of peanut allergy. The prevalence of peanut allergy in children in the United States, based on self-reporting in random telephone surveys, has increased from 0.4% in 1997 to 0.8% in 2002 to 1.4% in...