Dr. Francisco Pernas, Otolaryngologist with Baptist Health South Florida, explains the difference between an allergy and a cold. “There is a time difference. An allergy tends to be prolonged, it tends to last a lot more time. A cold tends …
Dr. Francisco Pernas, Otolaryngologist with Baptist Health South Florida, says doctors have recommended not giving your kids peanuts for the first three years of life. “Then we rescinded that, because we found out that if you waited until three years …
Cold and allergy share some symptoms but they are not the same. Some of the allergy symptoms are runny nose, sneezing, watery eyes and dry skin and some of the cold symptoms are cough, sore throat and mild headache.
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Dr. Mario Zambrano, Pediatric Emergency Medicine Physician with Homestead Hospital, says the immune system is not exposed to a lot of things in the uterus and when people are born they are bombarded with allergens. Everything is an allergen: food, …
Food allergies impact nearly 50 million people each year in the United States. The symptoms can range from minor discomforts, such as tummy aches and diarrhea, to life-threatening reactions, like anaphylaxis.
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Dr. Francisco Pernas, Otolaryngologist with Baptist Health South Florida, says an allergy is an inflammatory reaction the body incorrectly does for something that it shouldn’t be reacting to. “It’s basically an immune response that shouldn’t be there.”
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The allergy tests are skin tests, intradermal tests, challenge tests, and blood tests. Dr. Mario Zambrano, Pediatric Emergency Medicine Physician with Homestead Hospital, says if a young child has an allergy, they can do a blood allergy test to determine …
Dr. Francisco Pernas, Otolaryngologist with Baptist Health South Florida, explains you are not necessarily born with allergies, you can develop them as young child. “In the first year of life, kids typically do not have allergies. It’s this immune system …
