Category Archives: Allergy

Children’s cold, allergy medicine recalled

By doris | Published: May 1, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — A voluntary recall has been issued for more than 40 over-the-counter drugs for children, including Tylenol and Motrin, because they don’t meet quality standards. “This recall is not being undertaken on the basis of adverse medical events,” McNeil Consumer Healthcare said in a statement Friday. “However, as a precautionary [...]

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Swimming pools may be fueling allergies

By doris | Published: September 16, 2009

Full Story at msnbc.com Swimming in a chlorinated pool may boost the odds that a child susceptible to asthma and allergies will develop these problems, a study indicates. “These new data clearly show that by irritating the airways of swimmers chlorination products in water and air of swimming pools exert a strong additive effect on [...]

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Kids’ Peanut Allergy Treated, With Peanuts

By doris | Published: February 23, 2009

Full Story At cbsnews.com Medical researchers at a Cambridge University hospital took four kids who were highly allergic to peanuts — eating the smallest amount would send them into possibly-deadly anaphylactic shock — and started giving them tiny doses of peanut flour ever day. Now, they can eat peanuts. The small-scale study at Cambridge’s Addenbrooke’s [...]

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