The intended purpose of this monograph is to provide a general overview of allergy diagnostics for health care professionals who care for patients with allergic disease. For a more comprehensive review of allergy diagnostic testing, readers can refer to the Allergy Diagnostic Practice Parameters. A key message is that a positive allergy test result (skin or blood) indicates only the presence of...

BACKGROUND Dyspnea may be a presenting symptom of type I food hypersensitivity; bronchial hyperactivity, without known asthma, can coexist in patients with food allergy. OBJECTIVE To evaluate airway involvement in young adult patients with food allergy and no asthma and compare the findings to those of patients with food allergy and asthma, with food allergy and allergic rhinitis, with asthma...

objectives: the aim of this study was to compare the otitis media with effusion (ome) groups that improved when treated with adenoidectomy and ventilation tube (vt), to the group of the recurred after surgery and detect the possible role of allergy in ome. material and methods: this study was performed on two groups. the patient group consisted of 38 patients with recurrent ome with allergy an...

The European Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immunology (EAACI) owns three journals: Allergy, Pediatric Allergy and Immunology and Clinical and Translational Allergy. One of the major goals of EAACI is to support health promotion in which prevention of allergy and asthma plays a critical role and to disseminate the knowledge of allergy to all stakeholders including the EAACI junior members.

statement of the problem dental gloves are worn to protect dental care providers from contamination during contact with mucus membranes, blood and saliva. the prevalence of latex allergy has progressively increased due to the widespread use of protective disposable wears, especially latex gloves, among health care workers (hcw) in the past decade. the prevalence of latex allergy among hcw of ir...

PURPOSE Little is known about the role of International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision, Clinical Modification (ICD-9-CM) codes for identification of specific allergic reactions in the emergency department (ED). METHODS Investigators in 10 EDs reviewed 1395 charts of consecutive patients presenting with food allergy (ICD-9-CM codes 693.1 and 995.60 to 995.69) and insect sting aller...

Allergic reactions are of increasing concern to practitioners in health-related fields. In modern orthodontic practice, adverse patient materials both an irritant and a allergic nature. Allergy patients undergoing treatment can be seen due several reasons these include nickel allergy, allergy the acrylic resins that used during treatment, latex products, etc. Safe effective practice depends on ...

Background As show our earlier study, food hypersensitivity coexist in 27,2% of patients treated SIT for aeroallergens, and more frequently occurred in patients with plant allergy – 33,3%. Coexistence of plant allergy with food hypersensitivity cold be a cross allergy, or co-allergy. In case of cross allergy, SIT for plant aeroallergens could lead to abate of food hypersensitivity. But if it is...

BACKGROUND Food allergy prevalence is increasing in US children. Presently, the primary means of preventing potentially fatal reactions are avoidance of allergens, prompt recognition of food allergy reactions, and knowledge about food allergy reaction treatments. Focus groups were held as a preliminary step in the development of validated survey instruments to assess food allergy knowledge, att...