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ALLERGIES
- GENERAL INFORMATION

The Household Products database, which provides the health and safety information on common products found in and around your home, courtesy of the National Library of Medicine: http://householdproducts.nlm.nih.gov/index.htm

The American College of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology's website provides detail about various types of allergies, their symptoms and treatments, anaphylaxis, and other related topics: http://www.acaai.org/allergist/allergies/Types/Pages/default.aspx

Various health topics, including Asthma and Food Allergies, from NAIAD/U.S. government: http://www.niaid.nih.gov/topics/Pages/default.aspx

A general resource for Allergy and Asthma sufferers from the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America: http://www.aafa.org/

Information regarding COPD, Asthma, Allergies, Medications, and other topics, from Aetna Intelihealth: http://www.intelihealth.com/diseases-and-conditions/chronic-obstructive-pulmonary-disease_b

An array of Symptoms, Diseases/Conditions, Medications, Procedures, Research, and other information from the Mayo Clinic: http://www.mayoclinic.org/symptoms

Is Enterovirus Causing Paralysis? http://www.cnn.com/2014/09/29/health/colorado-paralysis-enterovirus/index.html?hpt=hp_bn13Common-sense

Indoors and the Allergy Sufferer: http://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/making-indoors-safer-allergy-sufferers-25533836

When to use your EpiPen®: https://www.epipen.com/en/about-epipen/when-to-use-epipen?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_term=ub_allergen&utm_content=general&utm_campaign=epipen%202014%20unbranded%20-%20general%20allergy&gclid=CNGJmIPn78ACFYNK4AodgQcAow&gclsrc=ds

Using your EpiPen Correctly? 
http://seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2025258411_epipenfailuresxml.html

Flying with Food or Pet Allergies: http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/travel/do-airlines-treat-pets-on-planes-better-than-human-passengers/2014/10/09/eb6f3908-4b50-11e4-b72e-d60a9229cc10_story.html?hpid=z6    

Why Kids have Allergies:
http://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2014/11/11/how-kids-can-have-allergies-when-parents-grandparents-do-not/  

Really Allergic to Penicillin?
http://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/allergic-penicillin-youre-probably-not-n243161

Protein IDed as Drug Allergy Trigger:  
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/287224.php

FOOD ALLERGIES

General Info
about Food Allergies: http://www.acaai.org/allergist/allergies/Types/food-allergies/Pages/default.aspx

Food Allergy vs. Celiac Disease:
http://blog.foodallergy.org/2014/10/03/know-the-difference-wheat-allergy-vs-celiac-disease/

Farm Antibiotics
and Food Allergies: http://healthyliving.msn.com/diseases/allergies/farm-antibiotics-may-be-linked-to-food-allergies-1

Label Reading and Food Allergies: 
http://allergicliving.com/2014/01/06/how-to-read-a-label-when-you-have-food-allergies/

Food Allergy versus Food Intolerance are discussed courtesy of Insidermedicine.com:
http://www.insidermedicine.com/archives/VIDEO_If_I_Had_A_Food_Allergy_Dr_Leslie_Grammer_MD_Northwestern_University_School_of_Medicine_Feinberg_School_of_Medicine_3507.aspx

For those with Nut Allergies: http://www.ozy.com/fast-forward/hypoallergenic-nuts-a-solution-to-nut-allergies/33455.article#.U_yTRnqw3jQ.email

The Food Allergy Education Program from the Consortium of Food Allergy Research: http://cofargroup.org/

Various topics, from dining out to school guidelines, for those with Food Allergies from FARE: http://www.foodallergy.org/

Food Allergy Action Plan:
http://www.foodallergy.org/faap

Allergic Kids and Holiday Eating: 
http://www.kcra.com/news/seasons-eatings-avoiding-holiday-food-allergy-emergencies/30295496

For children or severe suffers of Allergies, Anaphylaxis, etc. from MedicAlert® Foundation:  http://www.medicalert.org/

Helpful information when speaking with children about their Peanut Allergies or Asthma courtesy of Marc Brown and WGBH:  http://pbskids.org/arthur/health/

Eating Nuts during Pregnancy: http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/12/24/eating-nuts-in-pregnancy-tied-to-lower-allergy-risk-in-offspring/?_php=true&_&smid=pl-share&_r=0

New Tests Predict Food Allergies?:
http://allergicliving.com/2014/12/04/new-blood-tests-aim-to-predict-food-allergies-and-severity/

Food Allergies in children, provided by The Centers for Disease Control: http://www.cdc.gov/healthyyouth/foodallergies/

Allergy food Buying Guides, Recipes, Webinars, and other resources for Kids with Food Allergies: http://community.kidswithfoodallergies.org/

Six Peanut Butter Alternatives for allergic children courtesy of Bon Appétit Magazine and MSN.com: http://living.msn.com/family-parenting/sponsored-galleries-2/slideshow?cp-documentid=264724023#1

Kids taste-testing Peanut Butter Alternatives (Washington Post): http://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2014/09/03/are-peanuts-banned-at-your-childs-school-these-kids-have-the-most-adorable-solution/?hpid=z10

Allergy-friendly Lunchbox Recipes: http://blog.foodallergy.org/category/allergy-friendly-recipes/

Dry-Roasting/Peanut Allergy
Correlation? http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2014/09/21/could-the-dry-roasting-process-trigger-peanut-allergies-yes-says-a-new-oxford-study/

More on Dry-Roasting and Peanut Allergies: http://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/21620050-how-peanuts-are-cooked-may-help-explain-why-they-are-allergenic-browned

Peanut Allergies and Probiotics (CBS News):
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/probiotics-may-help-prevent-peanut-allergies-animal-study-shows/

Antibiotics in your Food, from the ACAAI: http://www.acaai.org/allergist/news/New/Pages/YouMayHavetoWatchWhatYourFruitsandVeggiesEat.aspx

Kids who are both Allergic and Obese (ACAAI):
http://www.acaai.org/allergist/news/New/Pages/ForKidswithBothAsthmaandObesitywhichCameFirst.aspx

Suspect your Child has Food Allergies?: http://health.usnews.com/health-news/blogs/eat-run/2014/09/19/suspect-a-food-allergy-in-your-child-avoid-these-4-pitfalls      

Children's Food Allergy primer:
http://www.healthline.com/health/allergies/kids-food-allergies#Overview1

Allergy, Asthma and Oranges: 
http://acaai.org/news/allergysufferersallergictotreatment

Extreme Orange Allergy
nearly Fatal:
http://www.newsweek.com/extreme-orange-allergy-nearly-kills-toddler-first-recorded-case-282638

SEASONAL ALLERGIES

Holiday Time Allergies:
http://acaai.org/news/are-you-sneezing-your-way-through

Things that Worsen Seasonal Allergies: http://www.foxnews.com/health/2014/09/04/11-weird-things-that-make-seasonal-allergies-worse/

Making Your Seasonal Allergies Worse?:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/09/07/seasonal-allergy-triggers-worse_n_5760174.html

Fall Allergy Survival Guide: http://www.foxnews.com/health/2014/10/06/fall-allergy-survival-guide/

Living with Autumn Allergies: http://www.acaai.org/allergist/news/New/Pages/MakePeacewithFall.aspx

Allergy Tips for Indoors:
http://www.foxnews.com/health/2014/10/28/how-being-inside-can-worsen-fall-allergy-symptoms/

Pollen forecaster from Zyrtec
®:  http://www.zyrtec.com/allergy-tools/Allergy-forecast-tool?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=Unbranded+-+Pollen+Count+-+National&utm_term=allergy%20forecast&utm_content=Allergy+Forecast|mkwid|si3pzdvjp_dc|pcrid|49787874903

Access accurate Pollen and Mold Counts in your area with the National Allergy Bureau: http://www.aaaai.org/global/nab-pollen-counts.aspx

An overview of Allergic Rhinitis facts from Britain's National Health Service: http://www.nhs.uk/Livewell/hayfever/Pages/Allabouthayfever.aspx

Information provided by Merck for Allergic Rhinitis (hay fever) sufferers: http://www.merckengage.com/common/article.aspx?ID=632

Rhinitis info: http://www.acaai.org/allergist/allergies/Types/rhinitis/Pages/default.aspx

Sublingual Immunotherapy: A New Alternative to Allergy Injections information provided by Merck for Ragwitek™: http://www.ragwitek.com/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_term=ragwitek%20merck&utm_campaign=Branded+2014&utm_content=srQ8guGMy|dc_pcrid_50300378402
 

Sublingual Immunotherapy: A New Alternative to Allergy Injections information provided by Merck for Grastek®: http://www.grastek.com/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_term=grastek%20merck&utm_campaign=Branded+2014&utm_content=sUUToByJE|dc_pcrid_43820077641

PULMONARY - ASTHMA & COPD

The Poverty and Asthma Connection:
http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2015/01/20/378608279/the-inner-city-might-not-be-to-blame-for-high-asthma-rates

Benefits
of Exercise for Asthma Suffers.
http://www.northjersey.com/news/health-news/asthma-sufferers-nudged-toward-exercise-program-1.1155397

Asthma and Exercise:
http://health.clevelandclinic.org/2014/11/7-tips-to-overcome-asthma-when-you-exercise/

Enterovirus is in our area! If your child has Asthma, be extra vigilant! http://www.cbsnews.com/news/enterovirus-d68-five-children-being-tested-for-virus-at-childrens-hospital-philadelphia/

About Asthma and Lung Disease, from the ATS: http://patients.thoracic.org/lung-disease-week/2014/asthma-week/index.php

Air Quality
forecaster from AIRNow:
http://www.airnow.gov/

The effects of Air Pollution on your health:
http://www.lung.org/healthy-air/

Various resources surrounding Influenza from the American Lung Society:
http://www.lung.org/lung-disease/influenza/

Creating an Asthma Management program: http://www.lung.org/lung-disease/asthma/taking-control-of-asthma/create-an-asthma-management-plan.html

Contending with Occupational Asthma: http://www.aaaai.org/conditions-and-treatments/library/asthma-library/occupational-asthma.aspx

Asthmatic Children at school and other topics from the American Lung Association®: http://www.lung.org/about-us/our-impact/top-stories/prepare-to-go-back-to-school-with-asthma.html

Articles and support for Mothers of Asthmatics from the Allergy & Asthma Network: http://www.aanma.org/

Information regarding COPD from the NIH/U.S. government: http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/health-topics/topics/copd/

Reducing Asthma Triggers: http://www.lung.org/about-us/our-impact/top-stories/spring-forward-by-reducing-asthma-triggers-2014.html

Learning more about Lung Cancer: http://www.lung.org/lung-disease/lung-cancer/learning-more-about-lung-cancer/

Radon gas and Lung Cancer: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/04/27/radon-gas-lung-cancer/5464531/

Managing Asthma: http://www.lung.org/lung-disease/asthma/

Living with COPD: http://www.lung.org/lung-disease/copd/


About prescription Xolair:
http://www.xolair.com/

New Discoveries from the WSJ about Non-Allergic Asthma:
http://online.wsj.com/articles/researchers-shed-light-on-asthmas-mysteries-1411427207

Job Stress = Asthma Risk?:
http://health.usnews.com/health-news/articles/2014/09/23/job-worries-can-raise-asthma-risk-study-says

Link between BPA and Asthma: http://time.com/3475859/bpa-lung-function-children/

Vitamin D and Asthma Attacks:
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/284602.php

Vitamin D Eases Asthma?:
http://news.yahoo.com/study-finds-vitamin-d-might-ease-asthma-170708724.html      

Open your Airways:
https://time.com/3601257/lungs-respiratory-health/

OTHER ALLERGIES:

Sunscreen Allergy:
http://acaai.org/resources/connect/ask-allergist/skin-allergies

Cockroach Allergy:
http://www.acaai.org/allergist/allergies/Types/Pages/cockroach-allergies.aspx

Insect Sting Allergy:
http://www.acaai.org/allergist/allergies/Types/insect-sting-allergies/Pages/default.aspx

Insect Sting Allergy: http://www.aaaai.org/conditions-and-treatments/library/allergy-library/stinging-insect-allergy.aspx

Pet Allergy:
http://www.acaai.org/allergist/allergies/Types/pet-allergies/Pages/default.aspx

Drug Allergy: http://www.acaai.org/allergist/allergies/Types/drug-allergy/Pages/default.aspx

Dust Allergy: http://www.acaai.org/allergist/allergies/Types/dust-allergy-information/Pages/default.aspx

Eye Allergy:
http://www.acaai.org/allergist/allergies/Types/eye-allergies/Pages/default.aspx

Mold Allergy: http://www.acaai.org/allergist/allergies/Types/Pages/mold-allergies.aspx

Sinusitis: http://www.acaai.org/allergist/allergies/Types/sinusitis-sinus-infection/Pages/default.aspx

Skin Allergy (including Contact Dermatitis):
http://www.acaai.org/allergist/allergies/Types/skin-allergies/Pages/default.aspx

*Also see our Informational Resources and Videos specific to CONTACT DERMATITIS on The Center for Occupational & Allergic Contact Dermatitis page.
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