Despite his best effort to check food labels, one college student details his close call with anaphylaxis and what he learned ...

Food allergies and food intolerances are often confused, but they are not the same — and mixing them up can be dangerous. Dr.

It used to be that the only way for people with food allergies to prevent a serious allergic reaction (like anaphylaxis) was to avoid that food completely. Unfortunately, even when a person does their ...

Fruit, tree nuts, and legumes most commonly cause an allergy, while insects, meat, and herbs and spices least commonly cause ...

The rise in food allergies has become a growing health concern across the United States, with recent studies showing that nearly 32 million Americans now live with potentially life-threatening food ...

Grace Guthrie was vacationing with her boyfriend in January 2020 when the couple stopped at a café to eat lunch. Guthrie, a 29-year-old dietetic intern at the University of Kansas Medical Center, knew ...

Q: My hives just won't go away. Is it possible my diet may be the cause? A: Chronic hives, or chronic urticaria, can certainly be frustrating for patients and their families. Understandably, many ...

Food allergy sufferers have a new weapon in their fight against severe symptoms. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has given the injectable Xolair (omalizumab) the green light for use in ...

Feeding babies peanut-containing foods as early as possible can help prevent peanut allergy, but a new study published in ...

For patients with food allergies and their families, shopping is not the only thing stressing them out during the holiday ...

An allergy involves a mild to life threatening immune response to an external substance. A sensitivity, on the other hand, is typically a milder reaction associated with difficulty digesting food. An ...

Mammalian meat allergy (MMA) is one of the few known food allergies caused by an environmental trigger—a tick bite. In simple ...