It will be helpful for you to have some understanding of the terms that are currently being used by practitioners in the field of allergy so that you can understand the medical literature as you search for information on your child’s allergy. Understanding the terms will also pave the way for our discussion of why your child has allergies and what is happening in his or her body when an allergic reaction is occurring. (more…)
Systemic allergic reactions are a relatively common clinical emergency. In their mildest form, they may just manifest as system ...
Food is essential for sustaining human life. Many love to eat and find enjoyment in this activity. But there are literally thou ...
Definitions of anaphylaxis vary considerably, impeding the comparison of different clinical studies. Different definitions of a ...
Having a food intolerance test is becoming increasingly popular nowadays. This is because the symptoms of indigestion, stomach ...
Food allergies are becoming popular topics in the news at the moment. Based on a recent report by the CDC, the number of people ...
It is now almost a century since the pioneering work of Noon and Freeman was used to successfully treat hay fever symptoms using a low-dose incremental schedule of pollen injections. Noon based his doses of pollen extract on a pollen weight unit that remained in use for over 70 years; (more…)
Allergen-specific immunotherapy aims to correct the underlying immune imbalance associated with specific immunotherapy allergic rhi ...
The safety of immunotherapy has been a constraint on this form of treatment for allergic disease. Although retrospective survey ...
Anaphylactic reactions to Hymenoptera venom are relatively uncommon but can be life-threatening: venom immunotherapy is the treatme ...
Specific immunotherapy has been widely used to treat allergic rhinitis symptoms. As with any other form of specific immunotherapy, ...
Allergic rhinitis is a very common problem associated with poor quality of life, reductions in social and work activities and p ...
The airway circulation has many potential roles in asthma. The vasculature has a major influence on upper airway patency in nasal infection and atopic responses. Given its responsiveness to provocative stimuli in asthma and vasoconstrictive and antiproliferative response to corticosteroids, the bronchial circulation is likely to be a future target for novel asthma therapies. (more…)
Local micro environmental factors are crucial in determining both susceptibility to vascular remodeling and the extent of angio ...
Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor (VEGF), originally described as a vascular permeability factor generating tissue oedema, has be ...
Eosinophil infiltration of the mucosa is a feature of asthmatic airways. Their adhesion to bronchial epithelial cells has been ...
Acute inflammatory response constitute the first line of defense against infection pathogenesis and how immune system works as ...
IgE plays an important role in allergic asthma. Reducing IgE in the airway mucosa should reduce airway inflammation. Omalizumab has ...
Innate immunity depends on both resident and recruited leukocytes. The macrophage without doubt plays an import- ant role in the detection of pulmonary infections. Low inocula of pneumococci are cleared by macrophages. Alveolar macrophages also have an important role in the initiation of responses to inhaled lipopolysaccharide (LPS) and their function (more…)
Innate immune responses are seen in a very broad range of tissues. Indeed, the Toll-like receptors (TLRs, one of the most important ...
Contact of pathogens with the innate immune system will most frequently occur at epithelia, and the biology of the airway epitheliu ...
While our primary concern is the impact that the innate immune system has on allergic disease, it is essential to recognize that al ...
Activation of the innate immune system is an integral part of the pathology of allergic diseases such as asthma, with a dual role t ...
Toll-like receptors (TLRs) act as receptors for numerous stimuli of immune cells, including bacterial cell wall constituents (l ...
Drug allergy and adverse drug reactions are common among many people. Those side affect of consuming drugs affecting an about 30% of hospitalized patients. Unintended and undesired reactions of consuming drugs may be immunologic or non immunologic nature. The latter let in drug toxicity, side effects, food intolerance symptoms, and idiosyncratic reactions, popular known as drug allergy. (more…)
Drug allergy reactions may be classified, at least theoretically, according to one of four implicated immunologic mechanisms, a ...
Patients (and many doctors) frequently use the term ‘allergy’ when referring to any adverse drug reaction, even one that has no fea ...
Allergens are the trigger for human body allergic reaction. It is one of human immunological process to react for invader subst ...
It will be helpful for you to have some understanding of the terms that are currently being used by practitioners in the field ...
It is estimated that more than 12 millions of American are having food allergy. About 4 percent of adults are having this disease ...