by PediaBlog | Dec 4, 2018 | Uncategorized
We discovered more than two years ago on The PediaBlog that there is only one antidote to the terrifying and life-threatening event of an allergic anaphylactic reaction — an emergent intramuscular injection of epinephrine: Epinephrine (adrenaline) is the...
by PediaBlog | Dec 3, 2018 | Uncategorized
Food Allergy Research and Education (FARE) estimates that about 5.9 million American children have an allergy to one or more foods (30% are allergic to more than one food). One in 50 (2%) children in the U.S. are allergic to peanut. The number of children with...
by PediaBlog | Oct 30, 2018 | Uncategorized
Last year on The PediaBlog, we learned about a special program that makes Halloween a more inclusive and fun holiday for a lot of children. Pediatric Alliance allergists Sergei Belenky and Deborah Gentile explained it: Born out of one mom’s desire to help...
by PediaBlog | Sep 17, 2018 | Uncategorized
If you plan on bringing your kids into one of Pediatric Alliance’s sixteen office locations around the Pittsburgh metropolitan area for a flu vaccine, either during an office visit with a provider or at one of the convenient flu clinics we provide for our...
by PediaBlog | May 21, 2018 | Uncategorized
Last week was Food Allergy Awareness Week, an initiative created by FARE (Food Allergy Research and Education). Dr. Deborah Gentile (Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology Division) prepared the following blog post in support of FARE’s goal to “raise awareness of...
