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The Itch: Allergies, Asthma, Eczema & Immunology — 176 episodes

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#174 - Choosing Between Chronic Hives Treatment Options

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#173 - Busting the Biggest Biologics Myths for COPD, Asthma, and Nasal Polyps

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#172 - Why Needing Systemic Steroids for Asthma Is a Warning Sign

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#171 - Rescue Inhaler Changes in the Newest Asthma Guidelines

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#170 - When Asthma Peak Week Hits Adults

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#169 - What a School Nurse Wants Parents to Know About Asthma Peak Week

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#168 - Wildfire Smoke and Your Lungs, What You Need to Know

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#167 - How Is Chronic Rhinosinusitis Without Nasal Polyps Diagnosed and Treated?

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#166 - How Pregnancy and Your Baby's Gut Microbiome Play a Role in Food Allergy Prevention

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#165: Gut Microbiome's Role in Food Allergies

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#164 - New Chronic Hives Guidelines: A Look at What's Changing

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#163 - Understanding Chronic Spontaneous Urticaria: Hives Demystified

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#162 - JAK Inhibitors for Eczema: A non-steroidal option

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#161 - BREATHE: The Digital Asthma Management Tool

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#160 - Meet the President of the AAAAI, Dr. Carla Davis

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#159 - Food Allergy Anxiety in Teens: Risk-Taking, Social Pressure, and How to Help

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#158 - Managing Food Allergy Anxiety in Kids

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#157 - Dating, Kissing, and Intimacy with Food Allergies

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#156 - Is Your Asthma Worse Than It Should Be? Signs of Uncontrolled Asthma

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#155 - Did I Cause My Child's Food Allergy?

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#154 - What Providers Need to Know About Uncontrolled Asthma

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#153 - Food Allergy Bullying: How to Talk to Your Child and Their School

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#152 - How to Advocate for Better Healthcare

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#151 - What Allergists Think About Antihistamines

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# 150 - What Allergists Really Think About Your Allergy Nasal Spray

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#149 - What is Chronic Rhinosinusitis without Nasal Polyps

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#148 - How Do You Know Your Chronic Hives Are Under Control?

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#147 -The REMIX Trial: Remibrutinib for Chronic Hives

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#146 - How to treat chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyps (CRSwNP)

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#145 - How to Improve Indoor Air Quality (Part 2 of 2)

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#144 - How Indoor Air Quality Impacts Allergic Disease (Part 1 of 2)

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#143 - Meet the President of the ACAAI: Dr. Cherie Zachary

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#142 - Inside Allergy & Asthma Network: Education, Advocacy, and Patient Voice

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#141 - The Peds-AIRQ explained: pediatric asthma control

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#140 - Why Sleep Matters for Allergies, Asthma, and Eczema

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#139 - Understanding Food Allergy Labels & "May Contain" in the U.S.

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#138 - Prevalence of KIT D816V in anaphylaxis or systemic mast cell activation

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#137 - Diagnosing Chronic Rhinosinusitis with Nasal Polyps (CRSwNP)

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#136 - Food Allergy Treatments: What to Ask Your Doctor

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#135 - Food Allergies in School: A School Nurse’s Perspective

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#134 - How Dupilumab Reduces Mucus Burden in Asthma - VESTIGE Trial

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#133 - What is Chronic Rhinosinusitis with Nasal Polyps (CRSwNP)?

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#132 - Boundaries & Communication in Food Allergy Families

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#131 - What Is a BTK Inhibitor?

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# 130 - How Telemedicine Improves Access to Care for Food Allergies

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#129 - Omalizumab for Multiple Food Allergies – The OUtMATCH Trial

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#128 - Is Chronic Spontaneous Urticaria an Autoimmune Disease?

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#127 - Management of indolent mastocytosis - A clinical yardstick

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#126 - Management of mast cell activation syndrome - A clinical yardstick

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#125 - Parents’ Guide to Asthma Peak Week

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#124 - Asthma peak week and understanding triggers

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#123: Supporting the Mental Health of Allergy Parents

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#122 - Mortality in adult patients with chronic spontaneous urticaria: A real-world cohort study

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#121 - Avapritinib versus Placebo in Indolent Systemic Mastocytosis - PIONEER Trial

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#120 - Back to School with Food Allergies: Accommodations, Epinephrine & Preparing Your Child

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#119 - Processing Emotions After Anaphylaxis: Navigating Guilt, Family Reactions, and Moving Forward

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#118 - Do Indolent Systemic Mastocytosis Patients & Providers Agree on Symptom Control?

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#117 - BATURA Trial: Does a Combo Inhaler Help Mild Asthma?

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#116 - Why Fexofenadine Is Considered a Truly Non-Sedating Antihistamine

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#115 - Managing Food Allergies in College-Aged Students (Ages 18-21)

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#114 - Managing Food Allergies in Teenagers (Ages 12–18)

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#113 - Managing Food Allergies in Children (Ages 5–11)

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#112 - Managing Food Allergies in Babies and Toddlers (Ages 0–5)

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#111 - Food Allergy Basics for All Ages

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#110 - Early Introduction of Allergenic Foods: Preventing Food Allergies Before They Start

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#109 - Tezepelumab & Nasal Polyps: Inside the WAYPOINT Phase III Trial

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#108 - Interview with Dr. James Tracy, ACAAI President

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#107 - Understanding Hives in the Latinx Population

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#106: The Risks and Realities of Steroid Overuse for Eczema

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#105 - Understanding Oral Corticosteroid Overuse in Asthma

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#104 - Achieving Control in Type 2 Inflammation

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#103 - Pediatric Type 2 Inflammation: can we slow or stop allergic conditions in children?

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#102 - Comorbidities of Type 2 Inflammation

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#101 - What is Type 2 Inflammation?

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#100  🎉 100 Episodes of Allergy Education: Lessons from an Allergist & Patient

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#99 - Understanding Infant Anaphylaxis

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#98 - Food Allergy Treatment and Management

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#97 - The Nuances of Food Allergy Testing

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#96 - Doctors on Social Media: Changing Health Education

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#95 - How Allergic Reactions Work: The Science Behind Allergy Symptoms

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#94 - Neffy Epinephrine Nasal Spray: Impact on Patients and Healthcare Providers

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#93 - Neffy Epinephrine Nasal Spray: A New Needle-Free Treatment for Anaphylaxis

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#92 - How to Choose the Right Health Insurance Plan

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#91 - A Patient's Experience with Chronic Urticaria and Skin of Color

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#90 - Challenges of Chronic Urticaria in Skin of Color

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#89 - Health Insurance 101 for Doctors: Navigating Claims and Coverage

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#88 - How to Get Your Meds Approved: Appealing Insurance Denial

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#87 - What biologic therapies are available for allergic conditions?

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#86 - Food Allergy and its Impact on the Hispanic Community

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#85 - Navigating Biologic Therapy: What You Need to Know

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#84 - Biologic Medication Facts vs. Myths

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#83 - What is a biologic medication?

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#82 -The Future of Chronic Spontaneous Urticaria Treatments (Dupilumab, Remibrutinib, and Barzolvolimab.)

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#81 - Why asthma attacks rise in September peak week

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#80 - Chronic Spontaneous Urticaria Myths & Misconceptions

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#79 - Living with Chronic Spontaneous Urticaria

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#78 - Chronic Spontaneous Urticaria Treatments

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#77 - Food Allergy and Its Impact on the Black Community

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#76: Diagnosing Chronic Spontaneous Urticaria

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#75 - Understanding Chronic Spontaneous Urticaria: Hives Demystified

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#74 - Environmental Impact of Climate Change for People with Asthma and Allergies

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#73: What to Know About Advanced Systemic Mastocytosis

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#72 - Mast Cell Disease, the Hematologist & New Treatments on the Horizon

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#71 - Living with systemic mastocytosis

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#70 - How do low histamine diets and stress impact mast cell disease?

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#69 - How are Mast Cell Diseases Treated?

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#68 - Why you need to clean your eyelash extensions & lid margins

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#67 - How to Diagnose Mast Cell Disease

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#66 - Interview with Dr. Gailen D. Marshall, Jr.

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#65 - The Symptoms and Triggers of Mast Cell Disease

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#64 - Eyelash Extension Allergy

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#63 - Mast Cell Diseases & Systemic Mastocytosis: The Basic Science

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#62 - Why is anxiety around anaphylaxis so common?

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#61 - New ways to administer epinephrine - what is on the horizon

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#60 - Can you travel while on a biologic medication?

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#59 - What is anaphylaxis, and when to use epinephrine?

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#58: What is controlled Asthma? Everything you need to know!

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#57 - What are ocular allergies? Unpacking allergies of the eyes and more!

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#56 - Biologic Therapies for Asthma

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#55 - What is a venom allergy?

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#54 - Early Introduction of Allergens in Babies

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#53 - Shared Decision Making for Atopic Dermatitis & Your Health Care Team

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#52 - Medications for treating atopic dermatitis in all skin colors

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#51 - Skincare strategies and lifestyle changes for atopic dermatitis in all skin colors

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#50 - Diagnosing AD in patients with skin of color

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#49 - Understanding Atopic Dermatitis in Skin of Color

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#48 - Yoga for asthma

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#47 - The impacts of climate change on human health

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#46 - Allergy, headache and migraine - How are they related

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#45 The importance of sleep and allergies

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#44 - What is Oral Immunotherapy

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Can you be allergic to semen?

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#43: Food Allergy Myth Busting 2

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#42 - What are cross-reactive allergens?

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#41 - Climate change’s impact on asthma and allergies

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#40 - Food allergies in the media - the good and the bad

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#39 - Urticaria: what causes hives?

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#38: COVID-19 Vaccine Allergies & Testing: everything you need to know

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Using inclusive language for food allergies

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#37: Understanding Covid-19 Vaccines and Allergies

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#36: Intuitive Eating For Food Allergies

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#35: How to treat environmental allergies (allergies of the eyes and nose)

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#34: What are allergies of the eyes and nose (environmental allergies)

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#33: All you need to know about face masks

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#32 - COVID-19 and Asthma: What you need to know

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#31 Setting up a 504 plan for food allergies and asthma

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#30 Racial and economic disparities in food allergies, interview with Emily Brown

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#29 - Nutrition and food allergies during pregnancy

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#28: How to feel comfortable in your skin with eczema - Interview with Alexis Smith

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#27 - How to treat atopic eczema

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#26 - What is atopic eczema? Part 1

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#25 - Travelling with food allergies

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#24 - Dating, Alcohol and food allergies!

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#23 - The Immune System

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#22 - Food Allergy Myth Busting

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#21 - Interview with Gina & Jill - Passing the torch to your allergy teen

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#20 - Interview with Sharon Wong: Food allergies, cultural identity and holidays!

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#19 - The questions that arise after a food allergy diagnosis: Part 2 - Lifestyle changes

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#18 - The questions that arise after a food allergy diagnosis: Part 1 - the medical questions

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#17 - Interview with Lisa Rosenberg: food allergy anxiety

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#16: Interview with Elijah's Echo - advocating for allergies and health disparities

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#15 - Interview with Dr Ruchi Gupta - Prevalence of food allergies & managing food allergies in teens

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#14 - Interview with Shahla: how cooking has empowered her family with their allergy diagnosis

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#13 - Asthma Part 4: Asthma Medications - Inhalers, Nebulizers & Montelukast

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#12 - Asthma Part 3: Asthma Medications - Inhalers

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#11 - Interview with Joey Salmingo: founder of FATE

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#10 - Asthma Part 2 - The classification of severity & types of asthma

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#9 - Chat with Emma Amoscato - how to vet information about allergies & asthma

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#8 - Interview with Dr Alex Thomas: using comics help educate patients about asthma

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#7 - Asthma Part 1 - What is asthma & how is asthma diagnosed?

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#6 - Interview with Meg from Allergy Awesomeness: her allergy mom journey with EOE

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#5 - The types of allergy testing & why they can be so hard to interpret -- TUNE INTO Ep. 97 FOR UPDATED CONTENT

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#4 - Interview with Emma Amascato: her allergy journey & managing her son's asthma

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#3 - Managing food allergies as an adult & tips on dining out and traveling with allergies

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#2 - The science behind an allergic reaction & why are allergies on the rise?

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#1 - TUNE INTO EP 95 FOR UPDATED SCIENCE BEHIND AN ALLERGIC REACTION