Care for babies with food allergies lagging: study

NEW YORK, June 26: Babies with life-threatening allergic reactions to milk or egg often don’t get prompt treatment, despite their caretakers having been given medicine to counter the attacks, a new government-funded study shows. Researchers followed more than 500 infants with known or suspected food allergies for three years. The families had been told about the allergies and how to avoid trigger foods and had also been given an injector containing the drug epinephrine, which can stall an allergic attack. (agencies)