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Nuts Over the Holidays. I t’s that time of year again.it starts with all the Halloween candy, and leads right into the holi-days. Who can help themselves with all that good food around?? For me, the issue is fitting into my jeans once the new year rolls around. But, for an increasing number of child...

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Main Authors: Rud Polhill Md, Do You Know
Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
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Language:English
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Online Access:http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.472.2398
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Summary:Nuts Over the Holidays. I t’s that time of year again.it starts with all the Halloween candy, and leads right into the holi-days. Who can help themselves with all that good food around?? For me, the issue is fitting into my jeans once the new year rolls around. But, for an increasing number of children, having all this good stuff around represents a potential for seri-ous and even life-threatening allergy, especially to peanuts. Food-induced anaphylaxis accounts for a s i gn i f i c an t number of hospitaliza-tions and