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While fruits and veggies generally do the body good, they can cause troubling symptoms if you have oral allergy syndrome. OAS is an allergic reaction to proteins found in fruits and vegetable. It can cause your lips, tongue and throat to itch, tingle, and/or swell...

Plenty of people are jumping on the gluten-free bandwagon, but before you decide if it's the right choice for you, consider the different gluten and wheat-related allergies and intolerances. Wheat allergies and celiac disease are often used interchangeably. However,...

Are you considering sublingual immunotherapy (also known as allergy drops) for your allergies? Sublingual immunotherapy was developed in the mid-1980s as a safer, easier alternative to allergy shots. The perks? For one, there are no shots. SLIT is taken by squeezing...

Scientists only put a name on eosinophilic esophagitis in the past couple decades, but it is fast becoming a major cause of gastrointestinal illness. EE is characterized by a build-up of white blood cells (eosinophils) in the esophagus. The cells cause inflammation...

While many people know about treatment for environmental allergies (pollen, dust, pet dander, etc.), fewer people are aware of new developments in food allergy treatment. It used to be that the standard advice for food allergy sufferers was to simply avoid problem...

It has been observed that children who live on farms or in rural areas, who belong to families with three or more siblings, and who grow up in less-developed countries often have a lower incidence of allergies than other children. This rising phenomenon has been...

In the 1920s, the first successful trials of sublingual immunotherapy were completed. (Sublingual immunotherapy or SLIT desensitizes the body to allergens in the environment through liquid drops or tablets that are placed under the tongue and absorb into the...

Pollen, secondhand smoke, and air pollution are common triggers of asthma. What is asthma?

Symptoms of allergy-induced asthma include wheezing, sneezing, shortness of breath, and chest tightness. This infographic explains the causes.

The flowering plant known as ragweed—usually three to 12 inches tall—may look innocuous enough, but it packs a powerful punch when it comes to allergies. Ragweed pollen, carried along by the winds of late summer, contributes to as much as 75 percent of hay fever...

While allergy shots used to be the only form of allergy immunotherapy, there are a growing number of options for treating the underlying allergic disease. One of the newer options is sublingual allergy medications which involve tablets that can be dissolved under the...

March being National Nutrition Month, there’s no better opportunity than now to review just how well we’re treating our bodies.