Pregnancy / infants

Ovalbumin in breast milk is associated with a decreased risk of IgE-mediated egg allergy in children

06/12/2019

Verhasselt et al., 6 December 2019, The European Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology LETTER TO THE EDITOR There is an urgent need to delineate early-life factors protecting against food allergy, a rising epidemic affecting up to 10% of children. Prevention strategies now include...

Extra choline may help pregnant women decrease negative effects of COVID-19 on their newborns

01/06/2020

Milzer, J. Pregnant women who take extra choline supplements may mitigate the negative impact that viral respiratory infections, including COVID-19, can have on their babies, according to a new study from researchers in the Departments of Psychiatry and Obstetrics and Gynecology at the...

Induction of sustained unresponsiveness after egg oral immunotherapy compared to baked egg therapy in egg-allergic children

19/05/2020

Kim EH, Perry TT, Wood RA, Leung DY, et al. Background While desensitization and sustained unresponsiveness (SU) have been shown with egg oral immunotherapy (OIT), the benefits of baked egg (BE) therapy for egg allergy have not been well studied. Objective To evaluate the safety and...

Induction of sustained unresponsiveness after egg oral immunotherapy compared to baked egg therapy in egg-allergic children

19/05/2020

Authors: Kim EH, Perry TT, Wood RA, Leung DY, et al. Background While desensitization and sustained unresponsiveness (SU) have been shown with egg oral immunotherapy (OIT), the benefits of baked egg (BE) therapy for egg allergy have not been well studied. Objective To evaluate the safety...

Maternal choline and respiratory coronavirus effects on fetal brain development

12/06/2020

Freedman, R., Hunter, Sharon.K., Law, Amanda.K., Introduction The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) anticipate that maternal COVID-19 infection will affect fetal development like other respiratory coronaviruses (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2020). COVID-19 is not usually...