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Dr. Jacob Kattan: “Debunking Food Allergy Myths”

  • Time Warner Cable News
  • New York, NY
  • (December 19, 2014)

From peanuts and tree nuts to eggs and milk, pediatric food allergies can be scary and dangerous. However, there is a lot of misinformation out there. We asked Dr. Jacob Kattan, a pediatric allergist at the Mount Sinai Hospital, to clarify a few things. “Typically we don’t see people become allergic to food they are regularly tolerating. It's very rare to eat peanuts five times and react the sixth time. Nothing is impossible, but that is very rare,” he says.