The Confident Table: Food Allergy Treatment Options

An overactive immune response called type 2 inflammation leads to a community of diseases. Understanding how it works is changing everything about how these diseases are treated.

Choosing a food allergy treatment is a big decision. It starts with understanding the current options. Then thinking about what is important to you and your family, and assessing the requirements, benefits, and side effects or risks.

When a community comes together around health, everything changes. Community-driven asthma programs don't just manage symptoms — they also address triggers and obstacles: housing, air quality, and health care access. Because better asthma management happens when people are supported.

Dr. Pistiner and Dr. Nowak-Wegrzyn discuss cross-reactivity and the role it plays with pollen and food allergies.

Dr. Neeta Ogden joins AAFA to talk about the top 10 most affected areas, how climate change is reshaping pollen seasons across the country, and tips for managing seasonal allergies.

We focus on AAFA’s Health Equity Advancement and Leadership (HEAL) program, and outreach efforts in Alabama to address asthma disparities that exist in rural communities with Dr. Ellen Buckner and Dr. Linda Gibson-Young.

Dr. Jennifer Namazy joins AAFA to talk about how you can manage asthma and allergies during pregnancy and what resources are available.

Dr. William Anderson joins AAFA and Dr. Matthew Greenhawt to talk about how to manage asthma, what asthma control means, and current medicine options.

Tamara Hubbard discusses the social, mental, and relational impacts of food allergies on parents and children, as well as strategies to help families overcome these challenges.

Dr. Matthew Greenhawt, leading expert on food allergies, explains a recent study about a significant drop in peanut allergy diagnoses.