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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Credits:
Aaron Carroll -- Writer
Tiffany Doherty -- Writer and Script Editor
John Green -- Executive Producer
Stan Muller -- Director, Producer
Mark Olsen – Art Director, Producer

[cbpd]

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.

[AmyDentata]

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

[kokitsunetora]

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

[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.

[laratheplanespotter]

I wonder if Remibrutinib will be even better? Am on it for CSU. It turns off the BTK enzyme and prevents the release of histamine. It’s a miracle!

[CarolineOrtiz-gv]

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?

[poozlius]

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

[herrpez]

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

[DCA]

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.

[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?