allergic rhinitis (ar) is one of the most common allergic disorders of child¬hood. in order to determine the frequency of ar among school-age children, a cross-sectional study was performed. one thousand, nine hundred and thirty-two children (931 boys and 1001 girls), aged 7-18 years, from 30 systematic randomly selected schools of tehran, the capital of iran, were investigated in this study. s...

Patients with suspected food allergies are commonly seen in clinical practice. Although up to 15 percent of parents believe their children have food allergies, these allergies have been confirmed in only 1 to 3 percent of all Americans. Family physicians must be able to separate true food allergies from food intolerance, food dislikes, and other conditions that mimic food allergy. The most comm...

BACKGROUND Our aim was to investigate the factors that affect health related quality of life (HRQL) in adult Swedish food allergic patients objectively diagnosed with allergy to at least one of the staple foods cow's milk, hen's egg or wheat. The number of foods involved, the type and severity of symptoms, as well as concomitant allergic disorders were assessed. METHODS The disease-specific f...

BACKGROUND Although the natural history of cow's milk allergy is to resolve during childhood or adolescence, a small but significant proportion of children will remain allergic. Specific oral tolerance induction to cow's milk (CM-SOTI) provides a treatment option in these children with continuing allergy with high success rates. However current sentiment limits widespread availability as existi...

Purpose Stachybotrys atra has achieved great notoriety recently as a mould capable of producing mycotoxin, a potentially quite harmful substance. Because of news reports, patients have become quite concerned about “mould allergy” as the cause of an increasing number of symptoms. We set out to discover what percentage of patients referred to regional Allergy clinics have become sensitized to mou...

BACKGROUND Findings from animal and human studies confirm that diphtheria and tetanus toxoids and pertussis (DTP) and tetanus vaccinations induce allergic responses; associations between childhood vaccinations and subsequent allergies have been reported recently. OBJECTIVE The association of DTP or tetanus vaccination with allergies and allergy-related respiratory symptoms among children and ...

The aim of the study was to assess the use of quick tests for fecal calprotectin detection in children with skin symptoms of the Food Hypersensitivity for both diagnostic of the food intolerance and prediction of the oral challenge test response. Materials and methods. 76 children with skin symptoms suspected of the food allergy were recruited prospectively (mean age was 25,3 [11,5; 41,8] month...

There is a paucity of data regarding prevalence and characteristics of adult seafood allergy in United States cohorts. This study was designed to determine the characteristics of patient-reported seafood allergy in a large allergy referral adult population. Retrospective analysis was performed of laboratory and clinical characteristics of seafood-allergic patients in three allergy clinics in th...

Introduction It is valuable to determine the long-term efficacy of allergen-specific immunotherapy (SIT) and whether it can cure allergy. Aim For this study, patients were prospectively observed for 20 years after completion of SIT to determine its effectiveness. Material and methods A total of 1006 patients who underwent SIT for pollen allergy were observed for 20 years to assess the effic...