s:1858:"Background: Infertility is defined as inability in pregnancy after one year of regular intercourse without using contraceptive methods. Approximately15-10% of couples in childbearing appears infertile. It is the cause of infertility in men and women and infertility treatment depends on type of failure and is one of the methods of treating infertility in vitro fertilization. This researc...

BACKGROUND The most reliable method to diagnose food allergy or to determine tolerance is the oral food challenge. OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to describe the open oral food challenge applied to children with suspicion of cow's milk allergy mediated by immunoglobulin E, and evaluate the relation between the clinical history and skin prick test with the challenge outcomes. PATIENTS ...

OBJECTIVE A challenge is the recommended test to diagnose cow's milk protein allergy. However, many parents and physicians prefer to not challenge because the procedure may cause (severe) symptoms. In clinical routine, diagnostic testing is only available for IgE-mediated allergy. The aim of this study was to test the diagnostic accuracy of a symptom-based score to select infants at risk of hav...

BACKGROUND Ingestion of small amounts of cow's milk (CM) can elicit adverse reactions in patients with IgE-mediated CM allergy. Knowing the dose eliciting allergic reactions and the factors affecting it can be of great help in avoiding these reactions. OBJECTIVE To analyse the eliciting doses of positive challenge test in patients with CM allergy and to determine its association with the leve...