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 Peanut Allergy: Hope over peanut allergy 'cure'
Posted by admin on Friday, February 20 @ 09:47:05 MST (134 reads)
Source : BBC
Hope over peanut allergy 'cure'
A group of children with peanut allergies have had their condition effectively cured, doctors believe. >
A team from Cambridge's Addenbrooke's Hospital exposed four children to peanuts over a six-month period, gradually building up their tolerance.
By the end the children were eating the equivalent of five peanuts a day.
It is the first time a food allergy has been desensitised in such a way, although a longer-term follow up is now needed to confirm the findings.
Peanut allergies affect one in 50 young people in the UK and commonly cause breathing problems.
But at their most serious, they can lead to a potentially life-threatening anaphylactic shock.
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Asthma: Lack of sunlight could increase risk of pollution-related asthma
Posted by admin on Wednesday, February 18 @ 17:45:53 MST (137 reads)
Source: Telegraph UK
Lack of the sunshine vitamin may increase risk of asthma caused by air pollution, scientists warn at launch of major investigation.
by Rebecca Smith, Medical Editor
Thousands of children in London will take part in research to establish whether lack of vitamin D exacerbates pollution-related asthma.
Vitamin D which is made by the body from sunlight and a small proportion gained from diet is vital for good lung development in the womb and in childhood, it has been found.
Air pollution, which is higher in London than elsewhere in the UK and has among the highest rates in Europe, can trigger asthma and exacerbate symptoms in those who already have it.
Now scientists in London will study children in the East End where 18 per cent have been diagnosed with asthma to measure their vitamin D levels and pollutants in bodies. The results will be compared to data from before the Low Emission Zone was introduced to discover if the policy has achieved its aim of improving respiratory health in the capital.
The Exhale programme (Exploration of Health and Lungs in the Environment) is being carried out by a team from the Biomedical Research Centre, the Medical Research Council's Asthma UK centre and Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry.
Prof Chris Griffiths from Barts, said: "We are focusing on children because damage done to their lungs by traffic pollution almost certainly persists and makes lifelong lung problems and possibly early death more likely. By measuring children's breathing and lung inflammation over several years and gathering genetic information, we will be able to establish links between respiratory health problems, pollution exposure and the role of genetic susceptibility."
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Peanut Allergy: Peanuts on Northwest Airlines prompt protests
Posted by admin on Monday, February 16 @ 10:14:23 MST (119 reads)
Source: CNN
ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- The return of peanuts to the snack menu at Northwest Airlines this month has prompted a spasm of protests from travelers with allergies.
The change comes four months after Northwest merged with Atlanta-based Delta Air Lines and in the midst of a national salmonella outbreak involving Peanut Corporation of America. Georgia, where the company has a plant, is the top peanut-producing state in the country.
Northwest began handing out the goobers as snacks on February 1, as Delta has been doing for years.
In Minneapolis, where Northwest is based, news of the change has resulted in a flood of responses on the Web site of the Star Tribune, a local newspaper.
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Health: Monsanto Defeated on rBGH Animal Drug After 14 Year Battle
Posted by admin on Thursday, August 21 @ 21:38:07 MDT (166 reads)
NaturalNews) recently received great news from the Organic Consumers Association (OCA) that after a long fourteen year battle between OCA, public interest and family farmer groups against Monsanto's Recombinant Bovine Growth Hormone (rBGH), Monsanto has announced on August 6th that they will sell off their controversial rBGH. This is very good news since rBGH has been fed to cattle since the early 1990's and has been implicated in a wide array of health issues, some very serious ones for both the animals themselves and anyone who consumes anything from the animals who are fed rBGH.
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Asthma: Cold climate a factor? NH-State worst for asthma rates
Posted by admin on Tuesday, March 28 @ 15:31:25 MST (779 reads)
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New Hampshire has the highest rate of adult asthma in the country, with over 10 percent of adults who have the breathing disease, according to a report released yesterday.
New England as a whole fared poorly in the report from the Asthma Regional Council of New England, with five of the region's states ranking in the top 10 and 400,000 new asthma cases between 2001 and 2004.
Although the exact cause of asthma is unknown, the study's authors said older, moldy buildings, wood-burning stoves and dusty wall-to-wall carpeting could all contribute to breathing problems. Asthma attacks generally occur when someone with a genetic predisposition to asthma encounters a trigger, such as mold, smoke or chemicals in the air.
"Being in a cold state, there's a sense that indoor air pollution might be more of a problem than outdoor air pollution," said Laurie Stillman, the council's executive director. The report was based on more than 33,000 phone surveys nationwide.
Stillman said energy efficient homes, with their tight seals, make the lives of asthma patients worse because they trap troublesome air particles inside. Wood-burning stoves and poor ventilation also cause microscopic particles to hang in the air. In New Hampshire, the rate of adult asthma increased from 8.4 percent in 2001 to 10.3 percent in 2004, the study said.
New England's outside air doesn't help either. Stillman said the region is an "airshed" of bad breathing, as pollution from the Midwest and mid-Atlantic comes into the region - and stays here.
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Asthma: U.S. asthma rates highest in the Northeast
Posted by admin on Tuesday, March 28 @ 15:26:43 MST (244 reads)
Source:United Press International
DORCHESTER, Mass., March 27 (UPI) -- While asthma rates have leveled off nationwide, New England continues to see a rise in a trend that puzzles researchers, a new report says.
The number of children and adults diagnosed with asthma in New England increased by 400,000 between 2001 and 2004, said a study released by the Asthma Regional Council. Yet the cause of asthma is still a mystery.
The study, which was based on two telephone surveys of more than 45,000 households, found 14 percent of New England children have asthma, compared to 12.4 percent nationwide. Fifteen percent of adults in New England have the disease, compared to 13 percent nationwide, the Boston Globe reported.
Twice as many children in the lowest income bracket have asthma as those whose families earn more money, possibly relating to higher levels of environmental pollutants in their neighborhoods.
Children living with a smoker have a 44 percent greater chance of developing asthma. Rates are higher for boys, African-Americans and Hispanics.
There may also be a relationship between asthma and obesity. Obese adults, for example, have asthma at a rate 51 percent higher than adults who aren't overweight. Between 1990 and 2004, the number of obese adults in Massachusetts rose 80 percent.
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Food Allergy: India: food labels to carry nutritional details
Posted by admin on Wednesday, January 25 @ 13:28:25 MST (881 reads)
10 January, 2006
Government has issued a draft notification published in Part II, Section 3, sub-section (i) of the Gazette of India Extraordinary dated 25th November, 2005 to amend certain provisions of Prevention of Food Adulteration Rules 1955 vide Notification dated November 28, 2005.
The Labelling requirements for packaged food are being amended to align with the Codex Standards which are the International Standards. The proposed amendment includes that the quantity of each ingredient used in the product should be declared and complete nutritional information per 100 gram or 100 ml of the product may be provided on the labels of all food products. In case of proprietary food products the detailed label declaration about the ingredients including the nutritional information is being made mandatory. This will enable sensitive consumer groups, which may include allergic people, diabetic, children etc., to take their own decision for consumption of such food products.
The detailed amendments are as follows:- Definitions for some terms viz. claim, consumer, contaminants, date of manufacture, date of packing , best before, expiry date, food additives, food for special dietary uses, ingredients, label, labelling, lot number/ batch number, pre-packaged, principal display panel and processing aid are being prescribed as per the Codex definitions.
The labelling provisions of packaged food articles are being amended. As per the draft rules, the label of every package of food shall carry the following additional information, in addition to what has been prescribed under PFA Rules, 1955.
The percentage of any ingredients, which is emphasized or is essential to charterize the food or is emphasised in the name of the food or for which claim has been made.
The complete nutrition information per 100gm of the product. In case of imported foods, the name of country of origin. The guidelines for manufacture of proprietary food have been proposed to be revised.
Tobacco, alcoholic beverages and nicotine has been proposed to be prohibited to be used as ingredient in the propriety food.
The declaration with respect to net content, lot number or batch number, date of manufacture or packing, irradiated foods, country of origin, instruction for use have been proposed to be harmonized with the requirements prescribed by Codex Alimentarius Commission.
The food products which ds not contain prescribed amount of fruit juice/fruit pulp/ fruit content has been proposed to be described as "non-fruit product" and if any product contains only fruit flavour such product shall not be described as a fruit products and the word "fruit" shall neither be used nor the picture of fruit shall be declared depicted on the label of such products.
A time period of sixty days has been given for sending comments on the draft notification. The objections/suggestions may be sent to Secretary, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India, Nirman Bhawan, New Delhi-110001.
The notification is available on website of Ministry of Health and Family Welfare at "http://www.mohfw.nic.in/pfa.htm.
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Asthma: Fish oil can prevent airway constriction in asthma
Posted by admin on Tuesday, January 10 @ 06:55:44 MST (221 reads)
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Adding fish oil supplements to the diet can prevent the constriction of the airways brought on by exercise in asthmatics, a very common problem in this patient group, new research shows.
In an earlier study, Dr. Timothy D. Mickleborough, from Indiana University in Bloomington, and colleagues had shown that fish oil supplements can improve lung function in elite athletes with bronchoconstriction (EIB), but their use in asthmatics with the condition had not been well studied.
"The current findings suggest that fish oil supplements may be of value to asthmatics with EIB," Mickleborough told Reuters Health. "Our results support previous reports suggesting that the benefits are mediated through the antiinflammatory effects of fish oil."
The researchers assessed pre- and postexercise lung function and sputum inflammatory markers in 16 asthma patients with EIB who were randomly assigned to a normal diet supplemented with fish oil capsules or with placebo for three weeks. After a two-week interval, in which no supplements or placebos were given, the patients switched to the other regimen.
With the normal diet alone as well as the placebo-supplemented diet, the participants developed EIB. By contrast, with fish oil supplementation, the decrease in lung function that occurred with exercise was smaller and did not reach the threshold needed for an EIB diagnosis. In addition, with the supplements, the subjects were able to cut back on bronchodilator usage.
Compared with the other diets, the fish oil-supplemented diet was associated with a significant drop in a number of markers of inflammation in the sputum, which was noted both before and after exercise.
Mickleborough said the study subjects received 20 capsules of fish oil per day, in keeping with the dose his team had used in their earlier study, and suspects this may make patients less compliant. However, he hopes to conduct a dose-finding study in the future, which could result in the use of a much smaller dose.
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Asthma: Cough medicines 'of little help'
Posted by admin on Tuesday, January 10 @ 06:49:09 MST (207 reads)
Taking cough medicine does little to help recovery, US experts have said.
The American College of Chest Physicians has published guidelines for its members saying there was "no clinical evidence" they worked.
They suggest adults should use older non-prescription antihistamines and decongestants to stop the flow of mucus that causes the cough.
Children can be harmed by cough medicines, they warn, and they will usually get better without help.
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Allergy researchers at National Jewish Hospital are working on a new medication
Posted by admin on Tuesday, November 29 @ 20:01:58 MST (272 reads)
DENVER Allergy researchers at National Jewish Hospital are working on a new medication that helps people with potentially deadly peanut allergies.
The team at National Jewish has tested medicine that helps people build a peanut tolerance. The anti-body would actually stop the allergic reaction before it begins.
That's welcome news to Sean Coutain who has had a couple of close calls with his peanut allergy.
"You have to take the top off of this and hit yourself in the thigh," Coutain said.
He never leaves home without his Epinephrine. It's a shot of adrenaline just in case he comes in any kind of contact with peanuts.
Coutain can't fly on certain airlines that serve peanuts because it makes him too sick.
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