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Posted by john on August 26th, 2007 — in Nasonex News
Yvette Yatskis is a pro at examining food labels in the Jamestown (N.D.) Middle School lunchroom.
It’s a drill she’s mastered because her sons Andrew, 13, and Tygh, 12 are allergic to eggs, shellfish, fish, peanuts and other nuts.
Without proper vigilance, the two could experience anaphylaxis – a severe allergic reaction that can cause hives, swelling or other severe medical issues.
That means Yatskis regularly scours school lunch ingredients and communicates with cafeteria employees to make sure her children are well-informed about what’s on the menu,
“It’s not necessarily a challenge as long as we take care of things up front,” said Yatskis, a seventh-grade English teacher.
Yvette Yatskis of Jamestown, N.D., stands recently with her two sons, Tygh, 12, left, and Andrew, 13. The boys are allergic to eggs, shellfish, fish, peanuts and other nuts. John M. Steiner Forum Communications
Yvette Yatskis of Jamestown, N.D., stands recently with her two sons, Tygh, 12, left, and Andrew, 13. The boys are allergic to eggs, shellfish, fish, peanuts and other nuts. John M. Steiner Forum Communications
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“With the severity of their food allergies, we don’t leave anything to chance.”
Area school districts say they do their best to make sure students with food allergies have safe lunch options.
Schools are required by law to provide alternatives for students with special dietary needs.
Jamestown School District Administrator Bob Toso said his district works with families and food service employees to make sure students with allergies eat properly.
In particular, he said district officials keep an eye on peanut allergies, and have worked to eliminate peanuts from lunch menu ingredients for the benefit of students with peanut allergies.
“That’s one allergy that can be particularly dangerous. We really pay attention to that one,” Toso said.
Jamestown – as well as the Fargo, West Fargo and Moorhead school districts – asks students to provide a doctor’s note outlining a student’s food allergy situation.
The Fargo School District keeps a dietitian on staff who examines physicians’ requests and determines special food items that need to be purchased for students with allergies, said Deb Laber, the district’s director of nutrition services.
Gluten-free bread, soy milk and other products are available for students with allergies, Laber said. The district also posts lunch ingredients on its Web site.
Laber said the district serves about 50 students with special dietary needs. There may be more who who for their diets without reporting the information to the school, she said.
Mary Bonemeyer, food service supervisor for the Moorhead School District, said students with allergies usually take care to eat the right foods. The district’s array of lunch offerings allows students to avoid trouble foods, she said.
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“Generally, if they are allergic to shellfish or nuts, they just avoid those items on the menu because we do have other choices available,” Bonemeyer said.
Numbers increasing
Schools are seeing an increasing number of children with food allergies, said Anne Munoz-Furlong, CEO of the Fairfax, Va.-based Food Allergy and Anaphylaxis Network.
Many don’t have the resources to respond to students who suffer an allergic reaction, she said.
“Schools currently are struggling to reinvent the wheel in managing food allergies from one school to the next, and they have limited resources,” Munoz-Furlong said.
“Some schools have comprehensive plans; other schools have plans that could be greatly improved,” she said. “The goal is to give them the roadmap and customize their needs (for responding to students’ food allergies).”
The nonprofit organization estimates that more than
12 million Americans – or one in 25 – have a food allergy.
For children with food allergies, going back to school creates stress over knowing what’s safe to eat, Munoz-Furlong said.
Laber said the number of students with food allergies has quadrupled in the past four years in Fargo. Other districts say they’ve also seen anecdotal evidence of more students with food allergies.
“It seems like it’s more prevalent,” agreed Jan Sliper, director of food service for the West Fargo School District.
She said the key to managing student food allergies is communicating with parents, most of whom are good about letting the school know of their child’s dietary needs.
Lobbying to do more
School districts take special precautions for students like Andrew and Tygh Yatskis of Jamestown, but a group is lobbying Congress to do more.
The Food Allergy and Anaphylaxis Management Act, if passed, calls on the federal government to establish “voluntary national guidelines for managing students with food allergies.”
The legislation calls for the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services and U.S. Department of Education to create and distribute a “voluntary policy” to schools on how to manage food allergies and anaphylaxis.
Such a policy would include information on parents’ obligation to provide schools with information about student food allergies, strategies for schools to work with emergency medical personnel, ideas to reduce risk to exposure of allergens in the classroom and other suggestions for handling student food allergies and anaphylaxis.
The legislation, now in House and Senate committees, also asks the U.S. Department of Education to provide incentive grants for local schools to adopt and implement specific food-allergy management guidelines.
Yatskis said the Jamestown district has accommodated the food allergy needs of her children.
When they were younger, she’d pack their lunches so they didn’t have to guess whether school food contained harmful ingredients.
As they grew older, Yatskis looked through the school freezers to study ingredients. So far, neither boy has had a severe allergic reaction tied to school food.
“The biggest thing is to just be aware,” Yatskis said.
“There can be scary situations.”
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Posted by john on August 19th, 2007 — in Nasonex News
Lately, your best friend Spot has been licking his paws, rubbing his face and yelping incessantly because of chronic ear infections.
Your pet may be an allergy sufferer, and a visit to a veterinary dermatologist could be in order.
Pet allergies have some of the same characteristics as those found in humans, but there are also some distinct differences.
Between dogs and cats, the most common house pets, allergic reactions are more predominant in dogs, said Karen Helton Rhodes, a board certified veterinary dermatologist who practices in Riverdale, N.J.
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Rhodes said she often sees cats in urban areas having environmental allergies (called “atopy”) following repeated exposure to both indoor and outdoor airborne allergens. Typical aeroallergens include pollens (trees, weeds, and grasses), molds, dust, wool, animal dander and feathers, which are either inhaled or absorbed through the skin.
Rhodes said one difference between allergies in humans and pets is that people tend to get allergies early in life and tend to outgrow them, especially food allergies.
“With pets, particularly dogs, they develop them between two and four years old and the allergies get worse over time,” she said.
Food allergies are the least common allergic skin diseases in animals, although Rhodes said certain states, such as Florida and Michigan, see proportionately more food allergies in pets.
Flea allergy and environmental allergies are more frequently observed in animals. Non-food or atopic allergic reactions are an inherited predisposition, according to Dr. Mark Macina, a dermatologist at the E&M Bobst Hospital of the Animal Medical Center in New York City.
With dogs, certain breeds are more likely to develop allergic skin diseases than others. Terriers (West Highland, White and Pit bulls), Golden Retrievers, Labradors, Boxers, and Bulldogs (both French and English) are the most commonly affected breeds, although all purebreds are at some risk for allergies.
“Cat breeds are a little more difficult to identify, but we do see a larger number of Abyssinians,” said Rhodes.
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Birds are also susceptible to allergies.
“Some avian specialists feel that feather picking may be a manifestation of allergies and not simply a behavioral problem,” said Dr. Terri Bonenberger, another veterinary dermatologist who practices at the Animal Allergy & Dermatology Group in New York City.
Signs that your animal has an allergy depend upon the type of pet it is. For dogs, allergies often cause constant itching (around the ears, head, and neck) and paw licking and/or chewing in a generalized pattern.
Dogs also often have a history of recurrent skin and ear infections. Cats tend to be itchy on their head and ears and can have watery eyes and noses (together with coughing), but sometimes the only symptom exhibited is hair loss, according to Bonenberger.
“Cats are often ‘closet groomers’, “she said.
Seasonal Allergies
Diagnosing a pet allergy is determined by whether it is a seasonal or non-seasonal or whether it is food-based. “If a dog scratches year round, it’s a safe bet to be a non-seasonal allergy,” said Rhodes.
As is typical with food allergies in people, the best way to diagnose a food allergy is through an eight- to 10-week strict hypoallergenic dietary log, said Bonenberger.
Through process of elimination, the culprit food can be eliminated from the pet’s diet.
With environmental allergies, intradermal skin tests and vaccines are given to see evidence of wheals (a firm, elevated, round or flat-topped skin lesion).
In preparing your pet for a visit to the dermatologist, Rhodes made the following recommendations:
Do not bathe your pet for one week prior to the visit If an intradermal skin test is going to be performed, pets must be off all medications four weeks prior to the procedure Pets undergoing a biopsy should stop all medications one week prior to the appointment Do not use any topical medications on your pet if it has an eye infection for one week prior to the exam
Treatment
Treatment of environmental allergies differs depending upon the symptoms.
“Typically, the infections that dogs and cats incur due to allergic disease require systemic and/or topical antibiotics, antifungals for complete resolution,” said Bonenberger. “Simple bathing and/or ear cleaning alone does not resolve the problem.”
Animals may also require regular allergy vaccinations over the course of their lifetimes.
Steroids such as cortisone are often used for short-term relief, but long-term use is not encouraged due to the drug’s unwanted side-effects.
With hay fever or allergic rhinitis, a combination of therapies can also be used including antihistamines and topical therapy such as the use of special shampoos, conditioners and lotions. Topical therapy is generally used as a complement to other treatments.
“Remember, allergies cannot be cured, but can be controlled with proper therapy, Macina added.
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Posted by john on August 15th, 2007 — in Nasonex News
Daily Banner, FAIRFAX, Va.— The incidence of food allergy has skyrocketed, doubling in the last 10 years, and scientists aren’t sure why.
More than 12 million Americans — one in 25 — are caught up in this life-altering epidemic.
Among them are 2.2 million school-age children. For them, as well as for their parents, back-to-school is an especially anxious time.
That’s because food allergy is not the harmless, whimsical condition some people still seem to think it is.
“Food allergy is serious, and it’s life-threatening,” says Anne Muñoz-Furlong, founder and CEO of the Food Allergy & Anaphylaxis Network (FAAN). “Just one bite of the wrong food can bring on anaphylaxis, a severe allergic reaction that can cause death. Even trace amounts can be enough to cause problems — sometimes just through skin contact, or from inhalation when food is being cooked.”
Food allergy is the leading cause of anaphylaxis outside the hospital setting in the U.S. and results in 150-200 deaths and more than 30,000 emergency room visits each year. There is no known cure; strict avoidance is the only way to prevent a reaction.
But avoidance can be hard in schools, where food allergens are everywhere: in the cafeteria, on the playground, in the classroom. Not just in meals and snacks, but in art projects, craft activities, even math lessons.
Yet there is no uniform food-allergy policy to guide our nation’s schools — some of which are well-prepared to deal with food allergy, while others aren’t.
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“The bottom line is that parents can’t be sure that a school is equipped to protect their child,” said Muñoz-Furlong.
That may change as a result of legislation recently introduced in Congress.
The Food Allergy and Anaphylaxis Management Act (HR.2063/S.1232) would, if passed, call on the federal government to establish voluntary national guidelines for managing students with food allergies (see www.foodallergy.org/advocacy/KidsCongress.html). “What’s needed is a food-allergy blueprint for schools to follow, and this would provide it,” said Muñoz-Furlong. “Children with food allergy, and their parents, have to always be on guard, to prevent a reaction. It’s not easy, but they can do it with the cooperation, and the understanding, of everyone around them.”
Robin Phillips, Food Services manager for Dorchester County Public Schools, said her department is willing to help in any way it can.
“We are more than willing to work with parents and principals,” she said, “to take action if we know there is an allergy to a product.”
Ms. Phillips suggested that the best steps to take to make sure this is addressed is to supply the school nurse with information on the allergy and any suggested substitutions and then to follow-up with the principal.
“We will make adjustments for any child as long as we know about it,” she said.
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Posted by john on August 6th, 2007 — in Nasonex News
The Wyndham Lisle-Chicago Hotel & Executive Meeting Center is now offering allergy-friendly guest accommodations, as well as 99.9% allergenic-free meeting facilities in its new Executive Meeting Center.
“By providing our guests with the PURE allergy-friendly Room, they are able to enjoy the benefit of being in an improved air quality environment that goes well beyond the removing the pillows or those items that allergy suffers avoid,” says Diane Rosenthal, General Manager.
Utilizing the PURE Room system, the most comprehensive allergy-friendly system in the hospitality industry, this hotel now offers guests an environment where surfaces are treated to minimize contaminants and irritants, such as mold spores, yeast, bacteria, pollen, dust, dust mites and chlorine — as well as their odors. These allergy-friendly rooms feature a state-of-the-art air purification system that maintains air quality averaging four times cleaner than the threshold for asthma patients.
In the Wyndham Executive Meeting Center, air is purified at greater intensity and is filtrated eight times more frequently than standard air handling systems. Featuring a 99.9% non-allergenic treatment of air and surfaces, and frequently recycled air to lower levels of sleep-inducing carbon dioxide, this IACC-Certified Conference Center provides an environment designed to increase meeting attendee productivity.
“With the spotlight on personal wellness these days, we feel we are providing an option to travelers that they are looking for and have been unable to find,” says Haley Payne, Director of Wellness for Thayer Lodging Group.
Thayer Lodging Group, the privately held real estate investment company that owns the Wyndham Lisle-Chicago Hotel & Executive Meeting Center, recently committed to offering allergy-friendly guest accommodations at all of their hotels as well as 99.9% allergenic-free meeting facilities at their Executive Meeting Centers (EMC), Conference Centers and select meeting hotels.
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Posted by john on July 29th, 2007 — in Nasonex News
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - People who are allergic to cats may not have to get rid of their pets to find relief, if the findings of a new study hold up.
Tolerance to cats can be built up in allergic kids by placing increasing doses of standardized cat dander extract under the tongue, according to Spanish researchers.
In the medical journal Allergy, Dr. Emilio Alvarez-Cuesta of Hospital Ramon y Cajal, Madrid, and colleagues note that a first-line step for people with cat allergy is to remove cats from the home. However, this is often rejected or is not entirely effective, leaving immunotherapy as the only treatment.
Immunotherapy is based on the idea that the immune system can “learn” to tolerate allergy triggers if it is exposed to gradually increasing amounts of the offending allergen, starting with tiny amounts that don’t cause an allergic reaction.
In sublingual immunotherapy, or SLIT, the allergen is placed under the tongue, where it is absorbed into the system.
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To see whether SLIT using cat dander extract works for cat allergies, the researchers randomly assigned 50 allergic youngsters to get daily SLIT drops with increasing levels of cat allergen or inactive “placebo” drops, for a year.
The participants were then “challenged” by spending up to 90 minutes exposed to allergens in a room in which a cat was housed.
Of the 33 participants who completed the SLIT course, 62 percent showed a marked reduction in symptoms compared to their symptoms before treatment. They also showed improved peak expiratory flow values during exposure, and a reduction in skin test reactions to standardized cat extract. No significant changes were seen in the group that got placebo drops.
There were no reports of adverse reactions, and the investigators conclude the results suggest “that the cat SLIT used in this study was able to improve cat allergy based on natural exposure challenge.”
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Posted by john on July 25th, 2007 — in Nasonex News
The debate has been so heated that you’d expect a mobile-phone mast attached to the PC Advisor website, but now boffins claim that phone-mast allergies are all “in the mind”. Wi-Fi worriers read on.
Experiments prove that people who believe phone masts trigger symptoms such as anxiety, nausea and tiredness couldn’t detect if signals were on or off in trials at Essex University.
When the lab rats believed the signal was on they did report more distress. This indicates a psychological problem says Professor Elaine Fox, of the University of Essex, who led the three-year study.
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However, the Environmental Health Perspectives study stressed people were nonetheless suffering real symptoms (sweaty skin and high blood pressure): “Belief is a very powerful thing,” said Fox. “If you really believe something is going to do you some harm, it will.”
According to the BBC, the Essex experiments are some of the largest and most detailed to date. No plans for similar trials on Wi-Fi Electrosensitivity have been announced.
When the signal was being emitted, and they were informed of this, sensitive individuals reported lower levels of well-being. However, when tests were carried out in which neither the experimenter nor participant knew if the mast was on or off the number of symptoms reported was not related to whether a signal was being emitted or not.
Only two of the 44 sensitive individuals correctly judged if it was on or off in all six tests.
“This proportion is what is expected by chance,” said the researchers.
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Posted by john on July 22nd, 2007 — in Nasonex News
More and more foods bear a mishmash of warnings that they might accidentally contain ingredients that could seriously sicken people with food allergies. Yet there are signs that the labels are creating confusion among families that should heed them — even as new testing shows there is a real, if probably small, chance that foods with even the most vaguely worded warnings truly pose a risk.
The disconnect is sparking calls for standards on what are now voluntary warning labels. The Food and Drug Administration plans to seek advice from consumers and food makers, perhaps by year’s end, before considering whether to intervene.
Worried the labels may be losing credibility, the industry’s Grocery Manufacturers/Food Products Association already is preparing to update its own guidelines on when foods should carry the warnings.
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Consumers see the label “on so many products, they say, ‘Oh heck, I’m going to ignore it,’” laments Dr. Steve Taylor, a food scientist at the University of Nebraska who co-authored a recent study about the confusion.
For the seriously allergic, “I’ve characterized it as akin to playing Russian roulette with a really big gun that has 100 chambers and only one bullet. Sooner or later if you eat these products, you’re going to eat the wrong one,” he said.
About 12 million Americans have some degree of food allergy. Severe food allergies trigger 30,000 emergency room visits a year, and 150 to 200 deaths a year. Food labels help the allergic avoid ingredients that could sicken them.
A law that took effect last year requires foods that intentionally contain highly allergenic ingredients such as peanuts, shellfish or eggs to disclose that in plain language.
The accidental-allergy warnings are different: They’re aimed at foods that aren’t supposed to contain a particular allergen but might become contaminated with it. They may be made in the same factory, or on the same machines as allergen-containing goods.
In a report to Congress last year, FDA said a quarter of recently inspected food factories had the potential for such a mix-up.
The warnings are voluntary, so different companies use different, sometimes vague, wording. Nor does anyone count how many foods bear them, although all sides agree more are. Enter the new research, in this month’s Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology.
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Posted by john on July 17th, 2007 — in Nasonex News
BOSTON, July 16 A study suggests strong variation in the occurrence of anaphylaxis between the northern and southern United States because of EpiPen prescribing.
Anaphylaxis is a severe allergic reaction that can be fatal without treatment with epinephrine, according to Dr. Carlos A. Camargo of Harvard University, and colleagues who obtained data on EpiPen prescriptions in 2004 for all 50 states and Washington.
They used state populations to calculate the average number of prescriptions written per person and found the highest number of prescriptions per 1,000 persons was in Massachusetts with 11.8. Hawaii had the lowest with 2.7 prescriptions per 1,000 persons.
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On average, there were 5.71 EpiPens prescribed per 1000 persons in the United States, according to the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology.
New England had the highest values with eight to 12 EpiPen prescriptions per 1000 persons, while southern states had three prescriptions per 1000 persons.
The study authors suggest that perhaps more year-round sunshine in the south led to higher Vitamin D levels and could explain the north-south difference in the incidence of respiratory and allergic disease.
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Posted by john on July 17th, 2007 — in Nasonex News
As an allergy sufferer, I know how irritating the smallest outdoor allergens can be. But here’s something I didn’t realize. Rain can either be a blessing or a curse.
Samantha Harkinson is having a hard time enjoying the great outdoors. Samantha says, “A lot of headaches, stuffy nose, drainage, just everything kind of gross like that.” It’s the result of wet weather, which has aggravated her allergies. Dr. Mark Millard says, ” “If you’re mold sensitive, it’s a bad news bears day because it is really high out there.”
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But the doctor says there’s a flip side… especially for people who suffer from pollen and grass allergies. Dr. Millard says, “You’re home free cause there’s very little pollen in the air. The rain washes it out.” The rain also reduces high ozone levels. But that’s little consolation to mold sufferers in search of relief. Samantha says, “I take the occasional pain medicine or something.” If you’re symptoms are mostly above the neck, you can probably find relief at the drugstore. Dr. Millard likes products containing loratidine.. which is in Claritin. But if you’re wheezing, you need to see a doctor. Dr. Millard says, “If you’re wheezing, I would never take wheezing lightly.”
If you haven’t been to the doctor lately, there are some new medications that might help. Or you can wait for the weather to change. If you’re not allergic to mold, don’t think you’re off the hook. Dr. Millard says a lot of rain will mean a bumper crop of ragweed later in the summer. There you go, a little something for every allergy sufferer.
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Posted by john on July 15th, 2007 — in Nasonex News
Hay fever sufferers were dealt a blow yesterday after an unstable golfer triggered a halt to trials into what had promised to be the world’s first four-in-one vaccine to help summer snifflers and sneezers.
The US Food and Drug Administration suspended trials of Allergy Therapeutics’ Pollinex Quatro vaccine after a patient reported “a rare adverse event”. Allergy slumped 22 per cent, off 26p to 93p, despite the company insisting that evidence made it “unlikely” that the event was caused by Pollinex Quattro.
The event in question, according to Gary Waanders, a Nomura code analyst, was a trial subject in his late 40s who could not complete a round of golf due to instability. The problem occurred about three weeks after his last dose of Pollinex Quatro. The trials focus on the vaccine’s grass and ragweed allergy treatments. The ragweed trial in final stage-III is affected but stage-II trials for grass allergy continue.
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The bets are coming off that White Nile, the oil exploration company run by former England cricketer Phil Edmonds, will hold on to to its rights to look for oil in Southern Sudan. White Nile shares fell 11p to 74p, a 20-month low. The stock has fallen 31 per cent since Friday, when the company revealed that it had been made aware that Sudan’s National Petroleum Commission had asked for the removal of White Nile from the country’s vast Block B area. White Nile insists that it has the support of the government of southern Sudan to continue exploring in the region.
Melrose Resources rose 29¾p to 360p after it announced a positive drilling update from its prospects in Egypt.
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