A Drug to Treat Food Allergy Reactions

If you or someone you love has a life-threatening food allergy, you have to remain constantly vigilant for even the slightest exposure to that food, making even an outing to a restaurant an impossibility for some people. It can be exhausting, particularly with children, and there’s no cure for food allergies. However, the FDA recently approved Xolair for the reduction of allergic reactions to food.
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[@AmyDentata]

Love when an already-existing medication is found to have other useful effects

[@cbpd89]

Even with the challenges, if your allergy could kill you this would be a major relief! Dealing with food allergies with my child has been stressful. Especially because we had a new reaction crop up that had never happened before! It's freaky, quite frankly, to feed your kid something they've eaten a hundred times but suddenly this time they're covered in rashes.

[@kokitsunetora]

I'm on xolair for mastocytosis. So weird to hear about one of my expensive medications on here

[@poozlius]

I'm not allergic to engaging the algorithm in the comments, thankfully! ;-)

[@GaviLazan]

I like the new graphic look your slides have, but they possibly might be TOO clean? Like they don't feel cohesive with the rest of the video vibe or visual feel. Maybe adding some textures back into the backgrounds or a slightly different font (less bubbly?) could help.

[@CarolineOrtiz-g8v]

question if a person with severe allergies can take medicine? ain't there a risk for nut allergies if and person takes this medicine. will this cause later side effects when the medicine wears off?

[@mhkhusyairi]

Thanks

[@healthcaretriage]

Hey thanks! :) -The HCT Team

[@herrpez]

Using fewer of those cut animations would improve the production quality.

[@shakeyj4523]

Are you trying to apply for a job?

[@herrpez]

@@shakeyj4523 I don't need one. Even if I did, I'm in education, not video editing... so it would be a poor match for everyone involved.

[@DCA55]

I was hoping he would dive into the real issue around the predominance of food allergies , doctors telling parents for years to avoid giving allergy prone foods to kids which created a whole generation of folks with severe allergies. I'm 68 and grew up without knowing, or even hearing of, anyone with food allergies and with no foods labeled with dire warnings. I had a few mild food ,allergies as a kid and the conventional wisdom , at least my mom's wisdom,back then was to keep exposing kids to the food. Sure enough they all faded by time I was 7 or 8. As is so frequently the case, like prescribing aspirin to just about anyone above a certain age, doctors are simply too quick to adopt methods where there is no clear science or where the evidence is shaky at best.

[@NJ-wb1cz]

I was eating everything and grew up having an allergy to everything. Also, I'm pretty sure my mental health problems were coming from me constantly eating foods I was allergic to but adapted to an extend, leading to chronic brain inflammation Now that I cut out gluten, dairy and other products I'm feeling better cognitively that I did 10 years ago and my depression and anxieties are almost gone but I won't get that time back I lost

[@NotaWalrus1]

Avoidance being a bad idea is well known, but that's not the only cause for allergies. The true reason for the uptick in allergies in certain regions is currently unknown.

[@shakeyj4523]

What you leave out is that you didn't hear about the kids, because they died. And you do know that science is advancing all the time right? How many cell phones did you have as a kid? Oh right. None. Your ignorance is fortunately correctable. But will you bother, or is being a keyboard warrior too much fun for you?

[@NotaWalrus1]

@@shakeyj4523 Jesus, do you think it's productive to be this rude to the guy?

[@adnanilyas6368]

1) Healthcare Triage has talked about research in exposing kids to allergens in the past. 2) Quite frankly, it is so common for kids to outgrow most common childhood allergens (excluding nuts) that your mother’s intervention possibly was not responsible 3) Allergen exposure is supposed to be used BEFORE kids develop full allergies, before the age of 3-4. If they develop the allergy, repeatedly exposure can mean repeated threat of harm (or even death) as allergies can sometimes dramatically become more severe, and risk of trauma.

[@pkfiremusic]

First

[@shakeyj4523]

[@kuntamdc]

A little wierd though that we have to give kids a medication to keep them from reacting to the food we eat. Why not just feed them food their not allergic to?

[@skolljumper]

It's for accidental exposure

[@RedXiongmao]

I would encourage you to rewatch the video, this is more about preventing people from dying from accidental cross contamination

[@amandahodgin9316]

Clearly you didn’t fully comprehend the content of the video. I recommend you watch it again.

[@shakeyj4523]

Actually watch the video and get back to us