Word: allergist
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...Fradin is one of those incredibly anxious parents who would prefer that her son never so much as lay eyes on a Mr. Peanut logo ever again. Noah's allergist at UCLA, Dr. Gary Rachelefsky, who has treated him since babyhood, describes her as initially "one of the most fearful mothers I ever came into contact with." She's calmer these days, but her concerns are not unfounded. A few months before Noah went off to camp, she woke up one night to find him covered in hives, coughing and gasping, and she had to jam a syringe full...
Given the uncertainty in the medical world, it's easy to understand the frenzy outside the doctor's office. Too often parents of newly diagnosed children aren't given enough information about when and even how to inject the lifesaving epinephrine. "Our allergist said, 'Here you go. Here's a prescription and see you in a year,' " says Dena Friedel, an Ohio mom whose daughter was diagnosed with a peanut allergy when she was 2. When her daughter had a reaction several months later, Friedel didn't know when to use the syringe and called 911 instead. The EMT told...
...have to eat anything to have an allergic food reaction. Some people are so sensitive that touching food briefly or inhaling microscopic particles is enough to do the trick. "It can take a surprisingly tiny amount to elicit a reaction," says Dr. Suzanne Teuber, an allergist at the University of California at Davis...
...then there are those allergens that turn up where you have no reason to expect them. New York University allergist Dr. Clifford Bassett has traced several cases of unexplained rashes on the faces of children to food oils in the shaving cream their fathers used before kissing them on the cheek...
Many treatments for asthma are designed to control inflammation, although they still don't cure the disease. "It may mean that the inflammatory hypothesis is not entirely correct or the drugs that we use to treat inflammation aren't fully potent," says Dr. Stephen Wasserman, an allergist at the University of California at San Diego. "There are a lot of gaps to fill...