The house dust mite is a major cause of respiratory allergy worldwide. The management of mite allergy is based on avoidance measures, drug treatment, and allergen immunotherapy, but only allergen immunotherapy is able to modify the natural history of the disease. Injectable subcutaneous immunotherapy was introduced a century ago, while sublingual immunotherapy was proposed in the 1980s and emer...

In this overview of investigations into mite allergy in Iceland and of the current understanding of the sources of exposure, 2 major categories of mite-induced allergies were encountered. The first was house dust mite allergy due to house dust mites from unknown sources, and the second was barn allergy caused by mites connected with the degradation of stored hay. Characteristics of these diseas...

Abstract Background Storage mites are frequently found in our daily environment. Nevertheless, storage mite allergy is often neglected allergological diagnostics and possible allergies requiring therapy thus overlooked. Methods Recommendations for action made based on a literature review from March 2021 to August PubMed, Medline, GoogleScholar. Results This article provides an overview of the s...

BACKGROUND Asthma caused by allergy to house dust mite is a growing problem. Patients with allergy who do not have asthma (yet) might develop asthma depending on exposure to precipitating factors. OBJECTIVE We sought to determine whether house dust mite avoidance measures have an effect on the development of asthma. METHODS Patients with allergy (n = 29) who had no diagnosis of asthma (FEV1...

We studied the amount of house dust antigen in the beds of 55 patients with atopic dermatitis, eleven patients with psoriasis and ten healthy volunteers using a commercial ELISA which can determine the amount of antigen from Dermatophagoides pteronyssinus, D. farinae and D. microseras expressed as nanogram (ng) antigen per gram of house dust. The World Health Organization has indicated that 10,...

To identify patterns of clinical history associated with extreme (high or low) probabilities of allergic sensitization in coughing children so as to restrict allergy testing to those with an intermediate probability of sensitization. A total of 752 children, aged 1-4, visiting their GPs for coughing (>or=5 days), were tested for IgE-antibodies to house dust mite, cat and dog [RadioAllergoSorben...

The importance of the allergens in sensitisation and disease can be readily demonstrated in regions with and without mite infestation. Dose-responce relationships in regions with high infestation are less easy to detect pointing to the importance of variations of other factors. The relationship between allergic disease and IgE antibody shows that only people with very high responses become pers...

The clinical features of perennial asthmatic children with a skin or bronchial reaction to the house dust mite (Dermatophagoides pteronyssinus) were compared with those of asthmatic children without mite sensitivity. Mite sensitive asthma was characterised by an early age of onset of symptoms, these being predominantly nocturnal. A history of wheezing precipitated by dust exposure, during vacuu...

Clinical observations have suggested that there is an association of atopic conditions with hypersensitivity reactions to nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs). This relationship has been especially present in patients allergic to mites. This study was designed to review clinical and experimental evidence linking atopy, mite allergy, and hypersensitivity to aspirin and NSAIDs and discus...

Of 100 asthmatic patients prick tested for allergy to Dermatophagoides pteronyssinus, 88% were positive compared with only 14% of controls. A significantly greater proportion of dust samples from the houses of the asthmatics contained Dermatophagoides mites. The house-dust mite D. pteronyssinus, constituted 90% of the mites identified, other pyroglyphid mites, Cheyletus and Glycophagus making u...