Best Food Allergy Tweets/Posts From 2013 ACAAI Meeting

Sorry, guys...I've been very busy the last couple of weeks, but just over a week ago one of the largest allergy and asthma conferences, the annual American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology, was tweeting its brains out.

Here were the tweets and (virtual) presentations I thought were most interesting:

ACE inhibitors are often used to treat high blood pressure. I believe Lisinopril was the one specifically mentioned. This goes hand in hand with the idea that older patients, especially men, can see changes in the severity of their allergic reactions as they age.

Here's an answer on the question many of us asked about component testing. Just as with RAST, the number itself doesn't matter; just the positive result.

Gross! But yes, give your kids the bobber after the dog/ brother/ mailman licked it.

• Fast foods associated with an increased risk of allergy
• Climate change may be the culprit in allergy/asthma increase
• Defining allergy fact from fiction (this may be a helpful one to pass around with the turkey!)
• Egg allergy and the flu shot from Sloane Miller - get the word out! Everyone needs a flu shot!
• 13 things your allergist won't tell you 
• Myth vs. Fact: food allergies
• The high cost of food allergies
• Too few food allergies confirmed by oral challenge
• Great summary of literature and the specific food allergy research (thank you, as always, Ves Dimov!)

If you only read one, read that last one.
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