5 Takeaways From the New Food Allergy Law
Sesame becomes a “major allergen,” joining milk, eggs, fish, shellfish, tree nuts, peanuts, wheat and soybeans.
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April 26, 2021, 5:00 a.m. ET
If you have a food allergy, or your child does, chances are you spend a lot of time reading labels to figure out whether something will trigger an allergic reaction.
If you’re allergic to sesame, it’s more complicated. While federal law since 2004 has required companies to warn people when certain allergens are used to make a product, sesame has not been one of them. That has meant someone with an allergy to sesame couldn’t know for sure whether the foods they bought at the store were safe.
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However, it may result in higher health care use
Sensor-based inhaler monitoring with clinical feedback may improve asthma symptom control in children, as well as caregiver quality of life, according to a randomized trial evaluating a sensor-based electronic monitoring system.
Such a system would work well in racially and economically diverse pediatric populations, researchers found. However, this intervention was also associated with higher health care usage, suggesting that further “platform refinement” is warranted.
The study, from Ruchi S. Gupta, MD, MPH, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, and colleagues, was published in
One of the issues associated with managing asthma in school aged children is adherence to preventive therapies such as daily inhaled corticosteroids (ICS) And poor adherence leads to complications. For example, research shows that about 1 out of every 4 asthma exacerbations and more than half of asth