Keeping toddlers and preschoolers with food allergies safe in the busy children’s spaces of a public library can be daunting. But the success of a recent “food free” pilot program—informed by AllerGen’s CanFAST food allergy research—has helped a Markham, Ontario …
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Food Allergy Canada—the community-based advocacy, information, education and research organization and valued AllerGen partner—has launched a new online training course for parents and caregivers entitled: “Anaphylaxis in the Community: What Parents and Others Need to Know.” Developed with Leap Learning Technologies …
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New findings from AllerGen’s Cross-Canada Anaphylaxis REgistry (C-CARE) project, led by Dr. Moshe Ben-Shoshan, reveal that the incidence of anaphylaxis seems to be increasing among children. Published in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology (JACI), the study shows that …
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Following the September 2015 death of a first-year Canadian university student from an anaphylactic reaction, new research explores the experiences and perceptions of food allergic undergraduate students. AllerGen Researcher Leader Dr. Susan Elliott and fourth-year student Alexandra Olarnyk, both at …
New research by a team of AllerGen investigators has found that 7.5 per cent of Canadians—7.7 per cent of adults and 6.9 per cent of children under 18 years of age—self-report having at least one food allergy. The estimates are …
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How many Canadians visit emergency departments (ED) each year due to allergic reactions and anaphylaxis? Are the numbers growing? Which months are the most common for anaphylactic emergencies? How have prescription patterns for epinephrine auto-injectors changed over time? A new …
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Anaphylaxis accounts for a substantial proportion of the cases managed by paramedics in Outaouais, Quebec, new Canadian research reveals. Among 23,486 ambulance calls requiring transportation to hospital over a 12-month period in the Outaouis region, 104 cases or 0.44% were …
A new publication by AllerGen investigators reports the experiences of stigma among food allergic children in Ontario schools in the context of Sabrina’s Law. The study, “Disclosing food allergy status in schools: health-related stigma among school children in Ontario,” published …
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A new consensus communication—issued jointly by Canadian, American and European allergists and the World Allergy Organization—recommends introducing peanut-containing products into the diet of “high risk” infants between four and 11 months of age. The Canadian Society of Allergy & Clinical …
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Today’s Parent magazine (May 2015) provides a food allergy research “checkup” in its article “The Good News on Food Allergies.” In the article, researchers from AllerGen’s Canadian Healthy Infant Longitudinal Development (CHILD) Study and the Canadian Food Allergy Strategic Team …
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An AllerGen-supported study, “Accidental exposures to peanut in a large cohort of Canadian children with peanut allergy,” has found that children who are allergic to peanuts are more likely to be exposed to them in their own homes than at …
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Dr. Bruce Mazer explains how the Learning Early about Peanut Allergy (LEAP) trial is changing our approach to peanut allergy. The study found that infants (between 4−11 months) who consumed at least 6 grams of peanut per week were significantly …