Cumulative Inactivated Vaccine Exposure and Allergy Development Among Children: A Birth Cohort from Japan
Kiwako Yamamoto-Hanada et al. Adjuvants used in inactivated vaccines often upregulate type 2 immunity, which is dominant in allergic diseases. We hypothesised that cumulative adjuvant exposure in infancy may influence the development of allergies later in life by changing the balance of type 1/type 2 immunity. We examined the relationship between immunisation with different vaccine […]
Ending the Peanut Allergy Epidemic
Thinking Moms’ Revolution In the early 1990s, tens of thousands of children with severe food allergy arrived for kindergarten at schools across Canada, the U.K., Australia and the U.S. This sudden phenomenon of life-threatening allergy in kids only in specific countries occurred simultaneously, without warning, and quickly intensified. … The much anticipated five-year LEAP study […]
