The potency of an allergen vaccine is the total allergen activity (that is, the sum of the contribution to allergenic activity from any individual IgE molecule specific for any t-cell epitopes on any molecule in the allergen vaccine). It follows that potency measures always will depend on the serum pool or patient panel selected as well as the methodology used. Methods used for the assessment of allergen vaccine potency may be divided into in vitro or in vivo techniques. (more…)
The quality of an allergen vaccine is a measure of the complexity of the composition, including the concentration of the variou ...
A subcommittee under the International Union of Immunological Societies (IUIS) for the establishment of international standards (IS ...
Allergen vaccines are complex mixtures of antigenic components produced by the extraction of naturally occurring source materia ...
Having determined an adequate potency and complexity in composition, an allergen vaccine may still be deficient in the content of m ...
Being an immunological disease, the characteristics of allergy are those of specificity and memory. Regardless of whether the c ...
Cow’s milk is the most frequently encountered food allergen in infancy, and milk allergy is often the earliest indicator that a baby is atopic. Precise figures of the incidence of cow’s milk allergy are hard to find because of the difficulties in obtaining an accurate diagnosis, differences in the populations used for research studies, and disagreement about allergy symptoms (clinical criteria) for the condition. All studies agree, however, that cow’s milk allergy is most prevalent in early childhood with an incidence of 2 to 7.5 percent being reported. (more…)
Cow’s milk is the most frequently encountered food allergen in infancy, and milk allergy is often the earliest indicator that a ...
Cow’s milk allergy results when antibodies against milk allergens are produced by the immune system. Milk allergens are p ...
How frequently do you drink milk everyday or every week? Feel something strange after you drink your last milk? Perhaps you don ...
If the breast-fed baby is lactose intolerant (usually a temporary condition following intestinal infection at this age), moth ...
Terms Indicating the Presence of Cow’s Milk Components Butter, Butter fat, Butter-flavored oil, Butter solids, Whipped but ...
Patients (and many doctors) frequently use the term ‘allergy’ when referring to any adverse drug reaction, even one that has no features of an IgE-mediated allergy response. However, IgE-mediated allergy explains only about 10% of all adverse reactions to antigen antibody reactions from antibiotics. Patients who have experienced unexplained symptoms during treatment with two or more antibiotics are often said to have ‘multiple antibiotic allergy’; using this definition, the description can be applied to one patient in every 22. (more…)
This study compared the diagnostic value of intradermal tests and patch tests in 20 patients with non-immediate reactions to pe ...
Suspected drug allergy is not easy to investigate. In the UK, few centers have the necessary facilities and expertise, the evid ...
Drug allergy reactions may be classified, at least theoretically, according to one of four implicated immunologic mechanisms, a ...
Allergy skin testing is probably the most susceptible and practical way to monitor for existing allergy sensitivity. Biological ...
One of the popular allergy testing besides food allergy testing is skin allergy testing. Allergy patch test is the most commo ...
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…)
First-generation, relatively sedating oral H1 antihistamines such as diphenhydramine and chlorpheniramine have no role in the out-o ...
Indoor allergy is generally happens throughout the year and especially in children as they are the most victims of this type of ...
As a person who suffered form allergies and have a profession as family physician, I have much sympathy for those struggling with i ...
Allergen-specific immunotherapy is highly effective in the treatment of IgE-mediated allergy diseases such as rhinitis, conjunc ...
Treatment of allergic diseases in childhood presents unique challenges, as both the beneficial effects and the detrimenta ...