Expert GA ² LEN, the Global Network European Allergy and Asthma European Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, EAACI, warn that the old antihistamines that are sold without a prescription and are the most common form of self-medication for allergic rhinitis triggers can be hazardous to health. (more…)

Atopy can be determined as such the production of specific IgE response to common exposure to environmental allergens like dust mites, grass and cat or pets. Living with atopic allergic diseases such as asthma, allergic rhinitis linked, and eczema, but not everyone with atopy develops clinical manifestations of allergy and not everyone can be detected in clinical allergy syndrome, atopic diseases, it has been tested for specific IgE for a wide range of environmental allergens. This is especially true for asthma. (more…)

The precise mechanisms underlying the effects of Specific Immunotherapy are not well understood but several studies have shown that Specific Immunotherapy T inhibits both early and late immune responses to allergen exposure.

Recently, there have been many studies aimed at elucidating the mechanisms by which allergen-specific immunotherapy works. (more…)

Serum sickness syndrome was first recognized in the pre antibiotic era when heterologous antiserum was used as passive immunization for treatment of a number of infectious and toxic illnesses. Today, specific serum therapy with heterologous (usually equine) serum or gamma globulin is restricted to passive immunization for a very few toxic diseases and the use of antilymphocyte (ALG) or antithymocyte (ATG) globulin for immunosuppressive therapy. This is not applicable to active immunization. (more…)

While our primary concern is the impact that the innate immune system has on allergic disease, it is essential to recognize that allergic disease also impacts on the function- ing of the innate immune system. In part this is through treatment, since immunosuppressive therapies inevitably contribute to impairment of immunity at the levels of the innate and adaptive systems. (more…)