Peanut Allergy

Young answers important questions about how to manage a childs peanut allergy.

Peanut allergy. Children with serious peanut allergies may benefit from using the drug Palforzia which can help lessen symptoms theyre exposed. Peanut allergy is a type of food allergy to peanuts. Peanut allergy signs and symptoms can include.

Other symptoms may include. A 5-year follow-up study. Shortness of breath or wheezing.

Peanut allergy develops when the bodys immune system has an abnormal hypersensitivity response to one or more of the peanut proteins. Tightening in the throat Shortness of breath or wheezing Skin reaction such as hives. Food allergies are most common in developing children most especially infants and toddlers.

The most severe allergic reaction to peanuts is anaphylaxis a life-threatening whole-body response to an allergen. Peanut allergy is believed to affect 1 in 55 children in the UK. Peanut allergy is considered persistent in the majority of those diagnosed with it.

While the standard approach to care for peanut allergy is to avoid exposure researchers continue to study different therapies including oral immunotherapy. Typically after diagnoses as a child you will have the peanut allergy for the rest of your life with only about 20 of people outgrowing it by 18. Untreated peanut allergy is usually lifelong.

Is an Assistant Clinical Professor of Pediatrics at the Harvard Medical School Fellow of the American Academy of Allergy Asthma Immunology and author of the Peanut Allergy Answer BookIn this video Dr. Skin reactions such as hives redness or swelling. A severe reaction to nuts is called anaphylaxis and can be life-threatening.