Methods In this cross sectional study, 103 consecutive patients with seasonal allergic rhinitis were enrolled. Sensitization to common aeroallergen confirmed by skin prick test 3 millimeter more than negative control. Clinical symptoms, personal and familial history of atopy and demographic data were listed. According to food allergy history 63 of 103 patients had positive Open SingleBlind Oral...

Even though, the term 'allergy' first appeared in the medical literature in 1906, allergic diseases such as asthma, urticaria and eczema have been known for centuries, and their history dates back to antiquity.1 In the Middle Ages, 'rose fever' was a well-known entity with symptoms similar to hay fever.2The first description of the clinical symptoms of hay fever (seasonal allergic rhinitis) is ...

Patients who have generated IgE antibodies to an allergen are at risk for anaphylaxis with systemic exposure to that allergen. Thus patients who have IgE-mediated egg allergy are at risk for anaphylaxis if injected with influenza vaccines containing egg protein. Published studies, however, suggest that this risk is actually quite small, likely because of the very low quantity of ovalbumin in in...

Endotoxin, a component of the cell walls of gram-negative bacteria, is a contaminant in organic dusts (house dust) and aerosols. In humans, small amounts of endotoxin may cause a local inflammatory response. Exhaled nitric oxide (eNO) levels, an inflammation indicator, are associated with the pH values of exhaled breath condensate (EBC). This study evaluated seasonal changes on indoor endotoxin...

Allergic Rhinitis (AR) is one of the most common allergic disorders of childhood. 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. Sc...

Method Retrospective chart review of patients evaluated for allergic rhinitis and underwent skin prick testing. A cohort of 250 patients was randomly selected with inclusion criteria being symptomatic allergic rhinitis and positive allergy skin prick testing to usual panel of allergens. Data collection included demographics, smoking exposure, symptom pattern, presence or absence of non-nasal sy...

BACKGROUND Males and females exhibit different susceptibility to allergic diseases. OBJECTIVES The aim of the study was to evaluate gender-related differences in the prevalence of allergic diseases in Poland. MATERIAL AND METHODS To evaluate this problem, data from the Polish Multicenter Study of the Epidemiology of Allergic Diseases (PMSEAD) was analyzed. There were assessed 16,238 individ...