Got a rashIJ
Check your devices
Unexplained rashIJ Check your iPad. The popular tablet computer may contain nickel, one of the most common allergy-inducing metals. Recent reports in medical journals detail nickel allergies from a variety of personal electronic devices, including iPads, laptops and cellphones. Nickel rashes aren’t life-threatening, but can be very uncomfortable and even may require treatment with steroids and antibiotics if the skin eruptions become infected, says Dr Sharon Jacob, a dermatologist at Rady Children’s Hospital. People with existing nickel allergies are at risk of rashes from nickel-containing devices. The risk arises from contact with nickel-plated outer surfaces “over prolonged periods of time”.
Genes give you food allergy
Cause of mysterious food allergy has finally been discovered — genes. A new study claimed to have found the reason behind an inexplicable food allergy and a new therapy that can cure it. Eosinophillic esophagitis (EoE), a chronic inflammatory disorder of the esophagus which is prompted by allergic hypersensitivity to some foods and an over-accretion in the esophagus of white blood cells called eosinophils. EoE is responsible for various gastrointestinal problems, including vomiting and difficulty in swallowing. Scientists at the Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center found that a molecular pathway explicit to epithelial tissue in the esophagus linking a gene called CAPN14, which becomes considerably up-regulated in the disease progression.
Aspirin can increase longevity
Older adults with colon cancer who were prescribed a daily aspirin were less likely to die than those who weren’t, according to a new study. While the results need to be confirmed with more rigorous studies, they add to the evidence linking aspirin use to longer survival for cancer patients. The new study, published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, included more than 500 colon-cancer patients in the Netherlands aged 70 and older. More than 100 were prescribed daily low-dose “baby” aspirin for heart protection after their cancer diagnosis. Research published in October in the New England Journal of Medicine suggested that aspirin therapy could extend survival for colon cancer patients whose tumors had a specific genetic mutation.