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Are the kids from the LEAP Study still free from peanut allergies?

Food Allergy Podcast, Food Allergy Treatment and Management / By Dr. Alice Hoyt / 6 minutes of reading / May 29, 2024 / early peanut introduction, LEAP study, peanut allergy

LEAP Trio Study: Can introducing peanut in infancy prevent peanut allergy in adolescence? And what if your baby already has a peanut allergy? I was excited to see the LEAP Trio study published. It is a follow-up of the LEAP and LEAP-On studies, which demonstrated that early introduction and incorporation of age-appropriate peanut-containing foods decrease the risk

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Can SLIT induce remission in young kiddos with food allergies?

Food Allergy Research, Food Allergy Treatment and Management / By Dr. Alice Hoyt / 3 minutes of reading / December 21, 2023 / anaphylaxis, Edwin Kim, food allergies, food allergy, food allergy research, peanut allergy, SLIT, sublingual immunotherapy

SLIT = Sublingual Immunotherapy. Can it safely and effectively treat food allergies? SLIT is the new kid on the block when it comes to food allergies. To really dive deep on safety and effectiveness, I had the pleasure of interviewing Dr. Edwin Kim. Who is Dr. Edwin Kim? Dr. Edwin Kim is a world-renown allergist.

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3 Top Food Allergy Podcast Episodes from Dr. Alice Hoyt in 2022

Feeding Your Baby, Food Allergy Podcast, Food Allergy Research, Food Allergy Treatment and Management / By Dr. Alice Hoyt / 4 minutes of reading / December 27, 2022 / anaphylaxis, Anna Nowak-Wegrzyn, food allergies, food allergy, food protein-induced enterocolitis syndrome, FPIES, Hugh Windom, nut allergies, nut allergy, OIT, oral immunotherapy, peanut allergies, peanut allergy, types of food allergies

From OIT to FPIES to all types of food allergies, Dr. Alice Hoyt covered a lot in 2022! Is your favorite food allergy podcast episode on the list?

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Inside the Mind of a Food Allergist: Types of Food Allergies

Feeding Your Baby, Food Allergy Podcast, Food Allergy Treatment and Management / By Dr. Alice Hoyt / 3 minutes of reading / October 31, 2022 / atopic dermatitis, eczema, food allergies, food allergy, food allergy prevention, how to feed babies, nut allergies, nut allergy, parenting, peanut allergies, peanut allergy, prevent food allergies, prevent food allergy, prevent nut allergies, prevent nut allergy

Have you ever wondered what a food allergist is thinking when he or she is asking you so so so many specific questions? And why he or she keeps interrupting you to get very minute details about your kiddo’s story? It’s because the food allergist is trying to determine…

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teachers and food allergy - what to know

Food Allergy 101, Teacher Edition – What Teachers Need to Know!

Food Allergy Podcast / By Dr. Alice Hoyt / 2 minutes of reading / November 4, 2021 / allergic reaction, anaphylaxis, epinephrine, epipen, food allergies, food allergy, nut allergy, peanut allergy, school, teacher, teaching

We love our teachers and produced this episode about food allergy with them in mind!

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Teal Pumpkin – make this your new not-so-spooky tradition!

Food Allergy Podcast / By Dr. Alice Hoyt / 2 minutes of reading / October 21, 2021 / allergic reaction, anaphylaxis, epinephrine, epipen, food allergies, food allergy, Halloween, nut allergy, parenting, peanut allergy, teal pumpkin, trick or treat

Learn trick-or-treat strategies for kiddos, especially those with food allergies!

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Peanut Oral Immunotherapy – The Preschooler’s Mama’s Experience

Food Allergy Podcast, Food Allergy Research / By Dr. Alice Hoyt / 2 minutes of reading / September 30, 2021 / allergic reaction, anaphylaxis, early peanut oral immunotherapy (EPOIT), epinephrine, epipen, food allergies, food allergy, nut allergy, OIT, oral immunotherapy, parenting, peanut allergy

Hear a mom’s experience with her family’s oral immunotherapy journey!

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Who is Dr. Alice Hoyt?

Food Allergy Podcast / By Dr. Alice Hoyt / 2 minutes of reading / July 1, 2021 / allergic reaction, anaphylaxis, dr Alice hoyt, epinephrine, epipen, food allergies, food allergy, nut allergy, OIT, parenting, peanut allergy

Pam interviews food allergy specialist Dr. Alice Hoyt.

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Disney Planning Tips for Families with Food Allergy

Food Allergy Podcast / By Dr. Alice Hoyt / 3 minutes of reading / June 24, 2021 / allergic reaction, allergy free mouse, anaphylaxis, Disney, epinephrine, epipen, food allergies, food allergy, Mickey Mouse, Mickey waffles, nut allergy, parenting, peanut allergy, Walt Disney World

Disney and food allergy go together like Mickey and Minnie! If you’ve ever been to Walt Disney World, then you know that a lot of planning goes into those magical memories. If your kiddo has food allergy, then you may also know how accomodating Disney is for dietary differences. And if you have food allergy

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5 College-Prep Strategies for Food Allergy Families from FARE’s Kristi Grim

Food Allergy Podcast, Food Allergy Research / By Dr. Alice Hoyt / 2 minutes of reading / June 10, 2021 / allergic reaction, anaphylaxis, college, epinephrine, epipen, food allergies, food allergy, nut allergy, parenting, peanut allergy

Prepping for college… when should you start thinking about it? (Hint hint: now!) In this episode, Pam and I talk with the amazing Kristi Grim of FARE (Food Allergy Research and Education). Kristi has been with FARE for years and was the original lead and continued director of FARE’s college programming as well as the

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Food allergy and counseling

Food Allergy Podcast, Food Allergy Research / By Dr. Alice Hoyt / 2 minutes of reading / May 27, 2021 / allergic reaction, allergist, anaphylaxis, anxiety, epinephrine, epipen, food allergies, food allergy, nut allergy, parenting, peanut allergy, stress

De-Stress with Strategies from Tamara Hubbard, LCPC How often do you worry about your kiddo who has food allergy? And have you ever wondered if that amount of worry is “normal” ? Tune in to this episode of the Food Allergy and Your Kiddo Podcast with me, Dr. Alice Hoyt, and my good friend Pam

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Turning anaphylaxis tragedy into purpose

Food Allergy Podcast / By Dr. Alice Hoyt / 2 minutes of reading / May 20, 2021 / allergic reaction, allergist, anaphylaxis, college food allergy, epinephrine, epipen, food allergies, food allergy, nut allergy, parenting, peanut allergy

Death from anaphylaxis is rare. But when it happens to your child, the rarity of it doesn’t matter. And how do you move forward? Here is what the Suhy’s do… The Allison Rose Foundation is fighting anaphylaxis. I’m honored to be joined on this episode with Mike and Becca Suhy of the Allison Rose Foundation. Mike

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Food allergy prevention in babies

Food Allergy Podcast, Food Allergy Research / By Dr. Alice Hoyt / 2 minutes of reading / December 10, 2020 / allergy testing, anaphylaxis, epipen, food allergies, food allergy, food challenge, peanut allergy

Feeding babies potentially allergenic foods… what does the evidence say about food allergy prevention? Recommendations for when to feed babies certain foods have changed over the years, including recommendations on how on food allergy prevention. You may have had one set of recommendations for one child, then with another child, you had different recommendations! So

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Ingestion challenges for babies

Food Allergy Podcast / By Dr. Alice Hoyt / 2 minutes of reading / August 13, 2020 / allergic reaction, allergist, anaphylaxis, epinephrine, epipen, food allergies, food allergy, ingestion challenge, peanut allergy

A baby can have a peanut allergy, and the peanut challenge procedure determines that diagnosis. You’ve probably heard about doctors recommending babies eat peanut to prevent peanut allergy, and this recommendation differs from that of 20 years ago. At that time, doctors recommended babies avoid this potentially allergenic food. So there were not many ingestion

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Truths and misconceptions about auto-injectors like EpiPen

Food Allergy Podcast, Food Allergy Research / By Dr. Alice Hoyt / 2 minutes of reading / July 29, 2020 / adrenaclick, allergic reaction, allergist, anaphylaxis, auvi-q, egg allergy, epinephrine, epipen, food allergies, food allergy, milk allergy, peanut allergy, symjepi

Do you know what information is true and what’s not true when it comes to epinephrine from an auto-injector like an EpiPen? EpiPens and other epinephrine auto-injectors can be intimidating. Plus, no one really wants to give or receive an injection of epinephrine. But if your kiddo has a food allergy, chances are you have

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Peaches, Pollens, Peanuts, and Food Allergy?

Food Allergy Podcast / By Dr. Alice Hoyt / 6 minutes of reading / July 21, 2020 / allergic reaction, allergist, anaphylaxis, epinephrine, epipen, food allergies, food allergy, peach allergy, peanut allergy, pollen allergy

Did you know there is more than one way to be allergic to a peach? Read more here, and hear the podcast!

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Food allergy and the nutrition label

Food Allergy Podcast / By Dr. Alice Hoyt / 3 minutes of reading / July 14, 2020 / allergic reaction, allergist, anaphylaxis, COVID, egg allergy, epinephrine, epipen, fish allergy, food allergies, food allergy, nut allergy, nutrition facts, nutrition label, peanut allergy, shellfish allergy, soy allergy, wheat allergy

Especially during COVID, it’s important to know where to find your kiddo with food allergy safe by knowing where allergensare listed on a product’s nutrition label. Here’s how to do that. First step: listen to my latest Food Allergy and Your Kiddo podcast. On this show, I interview food allergy advocate Jen Jobrack. We discuss the history of

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Mom challenges

Food Allergy Podcast / By Dr. Alice Hoyt / 3 minutes of reading / June 17, 2020 / allergic reaction, allergist, anaphylaxis, egg allergy, epinephrine, epipen, food allergies, food allergy, food allergy mom, milk allergy, parenting, peanut allergy

Food allergy moms are faced with challenges every day. Things like “do these cookies contain egg” and “I wonder if I should let my Sweet Pea go to that slumber party?” ring in your mind. All this while you also are making sure your kiddo knows to look both ways and take the ear buds

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Food allergy podcast by a board-certified allergist

Food Allergy Podcast / By Dr. Alice Hoyt / 2 minutes of reading / June 16, 2020 / allergic reaction, allergist, anaphylaxis, egg allergy, epinephrine, epipen, fish allergy, food allergies, food allergy, ingestion challenge, mom, nut allergy, parenting, peanut allergy, shellfish allergy, wheat allergy

Demystifying Food Allergy via Podcast I am so excited to demystify food allergy through my new Food Allergy and Your Kiddo podcast! The infoblogcast – infoblog + podcast – is live! I hope you enjoy listening to this first episode of Food Allergy and Your Kiddo Podcast. So, to introduce this podcast, this episode is

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Peanut Allergy Oral Immunotherapy (OIT) Palforzia

Food Allergy Research / By Dr. Alice Hoyt / 5 minutes of reading / May 20, 2020 / allergic reaction, allergist, anaphylaxis, epinephrine, epipen, food allergies, food allergy, ingestion challenge, OIT, oral immunotherapy, peanut allergy

Peanut allergy has an FDA-approved OIT treatment Peanut allergy affects 2-5% of children. The treatment plan for peanut allergy recommended by most academic allergy centers is avoidance of peanut – perhaps until now. Hello, Palforzia, the only FDA-approved treatment for peanut allergy. Palforzia works through the treatment process called oral immunotherapy (OIT). Read on to learn more

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Early Peanut Oral Immunotherapy (OIT)

Food Allergy Podcast, Food Allergy Research / By Dr. Alice Hoyt / 9 minutes of reading / May 15, 2020 / allergic reaction, allergist, anaphylaxis, early peanut oral immunotherapy (EPOIT), epinephrine, epipen, food allergies, food allergy, ingestion challenge, OIT, oral immunotherapy, peanut allergy

Early Peanut Oral Immunotherapy (EPOIT) can decrease the severity of peanut allergy in young children. Say what?! Let’s discuss early peanut oral immunotherapy (EPOIT). “So let me get this straight: she’s allergic to peanut. But if we slowly start giving her tiny amounts of peanut, her allergy can decrease?“ Baby Sweetpea’s mom asked her allergist.

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