Abstract
The prevalence of food allergy among children in the United States is roughly 8%, with peanut allergies alone affecting over 1% of all children. It has recently been found that peanut (and maybe other) allergies are temporarily transferred through blood transfusions. Recipients of blood transfusions are unaware of their new allergy which, if exposed to the allergen, could trigger a life threatening anaphylactic event. We communicated with the FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation Research, to request that donors provide their allergy history and then recipients be alerted of their possible temporary food allergy.
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