Asthma
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AAP report flags risks of prescribing codeine for children
The risks of using codeine to treat pain or cough in children may often outweigh the benefits, sometimes even leading to death, and call into...
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When should primary care physicians prescribe antibiotics to children with respiratory infection symptoms?
Younger patients with shorter illness durations who presented with wheeze, fever, vomiting, intercostal or subcostal recession, and/or asthma were...
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Mylan’s generic EpiPen – a price break or marketing maneuver?
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Adding salmeterol to steroids didn’t boost kids’ serious asthma events
Adding salmeterol to fluticasone therapy didn’t increase serious asthma-related events among children.
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PAI-1 modifications, early-life LRIs increase asthma risk
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Peanut-allergic preschoolers benefit from oral immunotherapy
Early intervention oral immunotherapy (OIT) improved a majority of peanut-allergic preschoolers’ ability to eat peanut protein with no reaction....
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Nonpharmacologic AD therapy: Strongest evidence supports moisturizers
BOSTON – Moisturizers are “a cornerstone” of therapy for children with atopic dermatitis.
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Food allergy testing only rarely needed for AD patients
Between 15% and 30% of children with moderate to severe atopic dermatitis also have food allergies, but the allergies are a trigger for AD in only...
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Acetaminophen doesn’t exacerbate asthma in young children
As-needed use of acetaminophen for fever or pain does not exacerbate mild persistent asthma in young children.