BACKGROUND In allergic individuals, onset of symptoms is related to atmospheric pollen grain counts and aeroallergen concentrations. However, this relationship is not always clear. OBJECTIVES To analyze the correlation between grass pollen grain and aeroallergen concentrations in Ciudad Real, Spain, during the year 2004 and establish their association with symptoms in patients with allergic a...

The atopic syndrome consists of a number of diseases affecting different organs, e.g. allergic asthma, allergic rhinitis, allergic conjunctivitis and atopic eczema. A person may have one or more of these diseases that may also vary with time, depending partly on exposure to triggers. The atopic phenotype has a strong hereditary component. About 40% of children are born with this hereditary trai...

various cross-sectional and longitudinal studies have suggested that synthetic bedding is associated with asthma, allergic rhinitis and eczema while feather bedding seems to be protective. synthetic bedding items have higher house dust mite allergen levels than feather bedding items. this is possibly the mechanism involved although fungal and bacterial proinflammatory compounds and volatile org...

Since the first trial reported by Noon about a century ago [1], allergen-specific immunotherapy (SIT) by repeated subcutaneous administration of increased doses of allergen extracts has a long-lasting effect on immunologic tolerance to common environmental allergens [2-4]. Allergen-specific subcutaneous immunotherapy (SCIT) has been effectively used for the treatment choice for allergic rhiniti...

allergic rhinitis (ar) is a common form of allergic disorder in iran and rest of the world. this study was conducted to investigate the symptoms and paraclinical aspects of this allergy among iranian patients. a total of 206 patients (51.5%: male), with one of the specific symptoms of ar, from march 2005 to march 2007 were enrolled in the study. a written questionnaire was completed for each pa...

OBJECTIVES Antimicrobial chemicals are used in a variety of household and personal care products. Exposure to antimicrobial household products has been hypothesized to lead to allergic diseases in children. METHODS We investigated antimicrobial household product exposure and allergic symptoms in Korean children. An antimicrobial exposure (AE) score was derived. To examine the symptoms of alle...

Allergic reactions are only rarely taken into consideration in the differential diagnosis of urological disorders (Campbell, 1951; Dees and Simmons, 1951). Histologically speaking, however, allergic reactions are just as capable of occurring in the urinary tract as they are in the respiratory or digestive tracts. Thus mast cells and histamine are to be found everywhere in the normal bladder wal...

BACKGROUND As Korea has experienced rapid economic development, the lifestyles of Koreans have become more Westernized, in terms of urbanization and dietary habits. Also, the prevalences of allergic diseases, such as rhinitis, asthma, and dermatitis, have increased rapidly. This study aimed to identify the factors influencing the symptoms of rhinitis conditions, including rhinitis, allergic rhi...

BACKGROUND Olive (Olea europaea; O.e.) pollen is a major cause of seasonal respiratory allergy. The O.e. pollination season lasts two months from the beginning of May till the end of June. It was expected that patients with allergic disease from O.e. sensitization were symptomatic only during this period. However, during the last few years, we have observed that the clinical symptoms appear not...