Majority of children with asthma unaware of peanut sensitivity

DENVER — More than half of children with asthma included in a retrospective study and their families did not know the child also was sensitive to peanut, according to study results presented at the American Thoracic Society International Conference.“Many of the respiratory symptoms of peanut allergy can mirror those of an asthma attack, and vice versa,” Robert C. Cohn, MD, MBA, medical director of pediatric pulmonary medicine at Dayton Children’s Hospital, said in a press release. “Examples of those symptoms include shortness of breath, wheezing and coughing.”