While the role of economic and environmental factors in childhood asthma have been studied extensively, there has been very little investigation of how social factors might influence the prevalence of the disease, Gupta and her associates note in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology.
Bernstein: A recent study in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology shows that more than one dose of epinephrine was needed in 18 of 95 (nearly one out of five) cases of food-allergy anaphylaxis in children.
After two years, four of the seven youngsters in the egg pilot study could eat two scrambled eggs with no problem, and two more ate about as much before symptoms began, researchers report in the January edition of the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology.
A study in the January 2005 Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology suggests that the answer may lie partly in three-dimensional protein structures that are common to many different plants that cause allergies.
In addition to her education and experience, she had read articles published in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology and the American Journal of Public Health.
Children with allergies who receive allergy shots are about half as likely to develop asthma as children not treated with shots, according to a study published in the February 2002 Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology.
