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by ruth on October 27, 2008
Several months ago, when my baby was just a bit over two months old, she was admitted overnight to the hospital. She had some viral upper respiratory infection, and when I brought her to the pediatrician, I was advised to send her immediately for admission. The doc said there was wheezing and given my baby's age, it's better for her to be admitted so that she can be closely monitored.
So we did. But during our stay, the docs didn't detect any more wheezing and she didn't even need medication apart from some saline drops for nasal congestion. She was almost back to normal the next day. Either her symptoms were at the peak when I brought her to the pedia, or the pedia was a paranoid and would rather err on the side of caution.
Ever since, though, I've always wondered whether that first doc really heard wheezing. I've been told that even there really was wheezing, it's too early to tell whether my little girl will grow up to be an asthmatic. Statistics tells a different story, though: Wheezing With Colds Raises Risk of Asthma.
I'm crossing my fingers.
So we did. But during our stay, the docs didn't detect any more wheezing and she didn't even need medication apart from some saline drops for nasal congestion. She was almost back to normal the next day. Either her symptoms were at the peak when I brought her to the pedia, or the pedia was a paranoid and would rather err on the side of caution.
Ever since, though, I've always wondered whether that first doc really heard wheezing. I've been told that even there really was wheezing, it's too early to tell whether my little girl will grow up to be an asthmatic. Statistics tells a different story, though: Wheezing With Colds Raises Risk of Asthma.
Infants and toddlers who wheeze when they are sick with colds have a big risk of developing asthma later in childhood, a new study shows.
Wheezing with rhinovirus infection during the first three years of life was associated with a tenfold increase in asthma risk by age 6, researchers from the University of Wisconsin report.
Nearly 90% of the children in the study who wheezed with rhinovirus infection during their third year of life had a diagnosis of asthma three years later.
I'm crossing my fingers.
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Response from:
DropYourAllergies
(10/27/08 6:13pm)
Response from:
ruth
(10/28/08 12:46pm)
Yes, sadly, it's in the genes. So far, our environmental allergies are all still under control; unfortunately it's my older child's nut allergies that's toughest to manage. Again, unfortunately, there is no cure for food allergies yet.
Response from:
DropYourAllergies
(10/29/08 2:10pm)
Ruth & Parents with Children who have FOOD Allergies
Per Below and other TRENDs in Oral / SubLingual ImmunoTherapy ...
SubLingual Peanut ImmunoTherapy is not far off.
Oct. 2008 — Giving children with milk allergies increasingly higher doses of milk over time may ease, and even help them completely overcome, their allergic reactions, according to the results of a study led by the Johns Hopkins Children’s Center and conducted jointly with Duke University.
The findings of the study are reported online ahead of print, Oct. 28, in the Journal of Allergy & Clinical Immunology
“Our findings suggest that oral immunotherapy gradually retrains the immune system to completely disregard or to better tolerate the allergens in milk that previously caused allergic reactions,” says Robert Wood, M.D., senior investigator on the study and director of Allergy & Immunology at Hopkins Children’s. “Albeit preliminary and requiring further study, these results suggest that oral immunotherapy may be the closest thing yet to a ‘true’ treatment for food allergy.”
Currently, food allergy management involves complete avoidance of the trigger foods, waiting for the child to outgrow the allergy or treating allergic reactions if and when they occur. The latter could be dangerous, investigators say, because these common foods are difficult to avoid and some reactions can be severe and even life-threatening.
In a report released Oct. 22, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that food allergies are on the rise with three million children in the United States now having at least one food allergy, an 18 percent jump from 10 years ago. Milk allergy is the most prevalent type of food allergy.
“Given that the quality of life of a child with a food allergy is comparable to the quality of life of a child with diabetes, we urgently need therapies that go beyond strict food avoidance or waiting for the child to outgrow the allergy,” Wood says.
The Hopkins group is currently studying oral immunotherapy in children with egg allergy to determine whether increasingly higher doses of egg protein can help resolve their allergy, and have recently started another study of milk immunotherapy.
Per Below and other TRENDs in Oral / SubLingual ImmunoTherapy ...
SubLingual Peanut ImmunoTherapy is not far off.
Oct. 2008 — Giving children with milk allergies increasingly higher doses of milk over time may ease, and even help them completely overcome, their allergic reactions, according to the results of a study led by the Johns Hopkins Children’s Center and conducted jointly with Duke University.
The findings of the study are reported online ahead of print, Oct. 28, in the Journal of Allergy & Clinical Immunology
“Our findings suggest that oral immunotherapy gradually retrains the immune system to completely disregard or to better tolerate the allergens in milk that previously caused allergic reactions,” says Robert Wood, M.D., senior investigator on the study and director of Allergy & Immunology at Hopkins Children’s. “Albeit preliminary and requiring further study, these results suggest that oral immunotherapy may be the closest thing yet to a ‘true’ treatment for food allergy.”
Currently, food allergy management involves complete avoidance of the trigger foods, waiting for the child to outgrow the allergy or treating allergic reactions if and when they occur. The latter could be dangerous, investigators say, because these common foods are difficult to avoid and some reactions can be severe and even life-threatening.
In a report released Oct. 22, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that food allergies are on the rise with three million children in the United States now having at least one food allergy, an 18 percent jump from 10 years ago. Milk allergy is the most prevalent type of food allergy.
“Given that the quality of life of a child with a food allergy is comparable to the quality of life of a child with diabetes, we urgently need therapies that go beyond strict food avoidance or waiting for the child to outgrow the allergy,” Wood says.
The Hopkins group is currently studying oral immunotherapy in children with egg allergy to determine whether increasingly higher doses of egg protein can help resolve their allergy, and have recently started another study of milk immunotherapy.
Response from:
rekha
(11/11/09 12:10am)
can u tell me do and don'ts for wheezing
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