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Beware the Kiwifruit!
The humble kiwifruit has emerged as neweset potentially deadly food allergen. Among school-aged Australian children, kiwifruit is estimated to cause about 10 per cent of all food allergic reactions and has been known to cause anaphylactic shock. Doctors are alarmed at the increasing number of children suffering allergic reactions to fresh fruit...
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Woman Develops Allergy To Water
An allergy to peanuts is one thing. Avoiding them is a challenge, sure, but it's doable. But an allergy to water? Are you kidding me? How in the world to you (1) develop an allergy to water and (2) what in the world do you drink? One mum in the U.K., Michaela Dutton, developed such an allergy — she's one of 30 known people to have been affl...
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Allergies
THE BABBLE TAKE Allergies are reactions in the immune system against certain foods or substances. There is no clear answer for why this is the case, but there is plenty of speculation. One theory is that excessively clean environments lead our immune systems to focus on foods rather than bacteria. Opinions diverge as to what, if anything, par...
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A Cure For Peanut Allergies?
Researchers are cautiously optimistic that they may have found a way for children with nut allergies to reintroduce the popular legume into their regular diets. Two new American studies, which mirror earlier British findings, offer hope that kids who are born with allergies to peanuts need not be denied the tasty goodness of a PB sandwich for the...
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Suzanna Paxton
With 1 in 20 Australian children now diagnosed with a food allergy, it is more important than ever that parents know how to prepare safe, simple food not just for their own kids but for sleepovers and parties as well. Last week, Babble caught up with Suzanna Paxton, a busy mum and author of new book Allergy-Safe Family Food to find out more about a...
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Peanut Allergies Double for Australian Kids
Experts are pointing to an alarming increase in the rate of food allergies in kids. A potentially fatal peanut allergy is being detected in Australian children at more than double the rate of less than a decade ago. As reported in The Age, About one in every 200 children born in 1995 developed the allergy by age six, according to an ACT-based s...
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The Problem With Testing For Food Allergies
It turns out you may not need to buy that expensive hypoallergenic formula after all. After years of steadily rising allergies in kids, paediatricians are beginning to acknowledge that it might be the allergy tests, not the food, that’s the problem. The rise in false allergy diagnoses is due to a little something called modern convenience....
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They Say: Pregnant Women Can Eat Nuts
Once you're done snickering class, I'll begin. Because unfortunately for you (or fortunately - if you happen to be pregnant), a new study has found pregnant women eating peanuts has little affect on the allergies developed in their offspring. The report from the British Food Standards Agency Committee on Toxicity says pregnant women with a...
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Breastfeeding Poisons Baby! (Sort Of)
You can always count on London's Daily Mail for a good attention-grabbing headline, and this one doesn't disappoint: "I Poisoned My Baby by Breastfeeding -But Doctors Said I Was Being Neurotic."The headline's just a wee bit overdramatic - the article is actually a first person account from a mother whose second son was miserably wracked with undia...
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