Background: House dust mite is common aeroallergen. It can cause type 1 allergy (IgE-mediated) symptoms from dust inhalation with different spectrums of the disease. The relationship between migraine headache and aeroallergen has been questioned for many years. Objective: To report a case of migraine headaches in a child due to house dust and mite allergy and the course of this allergy after sp...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS Atopic patients are advised to cover their mattresses with occlusive coverings; however, these are not cheap. We investigated whether daily vacuum cleaning of mattresses significantly reduces content of house dust mite allergens, bacterial endotoxin, and fungal β-glucan. METHODS Twenty volunteers vacuumed their mattress daily for 8 weeks. Dust samples collected at two week...

Background Seafood is one of the most important causes of anaphylaxis worldwide and considered to be closely associated with house dust mite allergy due to cross-reactivity of mite trypomyosin (Der p 10) with the tropomyosins from shrimps and molluscs. We assessed the prevalence of sensitization to tropomyosin and other shrimp allergens in seafood-allergic subjects from Central Europe and explo...

Background The house dust mites are cosmopolitan guest in human habitation. Dust mites occur in nearly all homes. They are generally found in pillows, bed sheets, mattress, stuff toys, carpets etc. Dust mites feed on organic detritus such as flakes of shed human skin and flourish in stable environment of dwellings. Exposure to house dust mites is recognized as major cause allergy worldwide. The...

Twenty one adult patients with asthma, with positive skin test responses to the European house dust mite, Dermatophagoides pteronyssinus, were randomly allocated to a control group or to a group applying house dust mite avoidance measures. These included an initial application of liquid nitrogen to mattresses and bedroom carpets to kill the live house dust mite population. Histamine airway resp...

INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVE House dust mites produce allergens which can cause or aggravate diseases such as asthma, eczema and rhinitis. The objectives of this study are to quantify typical house dust mite and Der p 1 allergen levels in child car seats, and to determine external variables that may influence mite populations in cars. MATERIALS AND METHODS Dust samples were collected from the c...

House dust mites are common pests with an unusual evolutionary history, being descendants of a parasitic ancestor. Transition to parasitism is frequently accompanied by genome rearrangements, possibly to accommodate the genetic change needed to access new ecology. Transposable element (TE) activity is a source of genomic instability that can trigger large-scale genomic alterations. Eukaryotes h...

BACKGROUND Studies in patients with allergic rhinitis living in the Free State have showed grass pollens to be the predominant allergens, with house-dust mite sensitisation being less prevalent than in the coastal areas and a low rate of sensitisation to the storage mite Lepidoglyphus destructor. No studies have been conducted on sensitisation to the other storage mites, spider mites or cockroa...

BACKGROUND Sublingual immunotherapy (SLIT) as a therapy for the treatment of allergic rhinitis in children might be acceptable as an alternative for subcutaneous immunotherapy. However, the efficacy of SLIT with house dust mite extract is not well established. OBJECTIVE To investigate whether SLIT in house dust mite-allergic children recruited in primary care is effective and safe. METHODS ...

To improve our understanding of the pathophysiology of chronic allergic asthma, we mimicked natural allergen exposure by giving tiny doses of dust-mite extract (equivalent to estimated daily exposure in a typical bedroom) in three weekly sessions for 4 wk. Nine mild asthmatic adults who were highly sensitive to dust-mite allergen participated in the study. Serial assessments of bronchial reacti...