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Maternal Antibodies: How Allergies Can be Passed from Mothers to Children

XTalks

It has long been known that mothers greatly influence the development of the growing fetus by not only providing nutrients through the placenta, but also a growing list of biological elements including beneficial antibodies, gut bacteria and now, allergies. Related: Red Meat Allergy Test Gets FDA Clearance.

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Tackling food allergies at the source

Scienmag

Credit: Eliot Herman Food allergies are a big problem. suffer from some kind of food allergy. These allergies cost a whopping $25 billion in health care each year. About 7% of children and 2% of adults in the U.S. Then there’s the time lost at school or work.

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Fewer Food Allergies in Kids If Mom Drinks Milk While Breastfeeding: Study

The Pharma Data

4, 2021 — Mothers who drink cow’s milk while breastfeeding may reduce their child’s risk of developing food allergies , a new Swedish study suggests. “Though the association is clear, we do not claim that drinking cow’s milk would be a general cure for food allergies,” she said in a university news release.

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Children with asthma could benefit from prescribing according to genetic differences

Scienmag

Results from the first trial of personalised care for children with asthma Selecting treatments according to genetic differences could help children and teenagers with asthma, according to research presented at the European Respiratory Society International Congress. [1]

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NIH-supported scientists demonstrate how genetic variations cause eczema

Scienmag

Finding could lead to genetic tests that identify infants at risk for the disease Credit: NIAID WHAT: New research supported by the National Institutes of Health delineates how two relatively common variations in a gene called KIF3A are responsible for an impaired skin barrier that allows increased water loss from the skin, promoting the development (..)

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Texas A&M agrilife research investigating phages to fight bacterial infection

Scienmag

New NIH-funded grant supports studying phages as a preventive, therapeutic approach The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIAID, part of the National Institutes of Health, NIH, has awarded $2.5 Woman, Dr. Lanying Zeng, sitting […].

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Common class of drugs linked to increased risk of Alzheimer’s disease

Scienmag

Anticholinergic medications are used for many conditions but might also accelerate cognitive decline, especially in older persons with biological or genetic risk factors A team of scientists, led by researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine, report that a class of drugs used for a broad array of conditions, from allergies (..)