Cows milk protein allergy most common and most dangerous
The finding that giving cows milk very early in life might boost tolerance came as a surprise to lead researcher Dr. Yitzhak Katz of Tel Aviv University in Israel. He and his colleagues simply set out to improve on current estimates of the number of children with the allergy, and to determine how often it [...]
A number studies have shown association between obesity
Jun Ma of the Palo Alto Medical Research Institute in California note in the medical journal Allergy.
Ma and her team looked at about 4,500 men and women from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey for 2005-2006. About a third were overweight, and another third were obese.
Forty-one percent had some type of allergy, while [...]
No Cloned Hypoallergenic Dogs Available Yet, Only Cats
So Malia and Sasha, how about a fish instead?
President-elect Barack Obama has said his young daughters have been promised a dog with their move to the White House. And in his first post-election news conference last week, he announced that Malia “is allergic, so it has to be hypoallergenic.”
Its a common misconception. In response, the [...]