Twenty-five children with clinical egg hypersensitivity, confirmed by double-blind challenge, were followed for between 2 and 2 1/2 years. Clinical egg hypersensitivity was fund to have resolved in 11 children but was persistent in 14. Skin prick tests reactions to egg were initially of equivalent size in the resolved and persistent groups, but became negative or diminished in size with resolut...

The main object of this work was to investigate the effect of adding two probiotics, (effective microorganism (EM) as a live microbes and Zinc bacitracin as antibiotic ) to the diets of Inshas chickens (a local Egyptian chicken strain) on chickens immunity. The experimental design consisted of six experimental groups: control and 5 dietary treatments as follows; (T1) Basal diet ( control ), (T2...

BACKGROUND Icodextrin is proposed as a new osmotic agent for use in peritoneal dialysis. Because of its recent use, adverse reactions are not well known. Cutaneous adverse effects have been described. We report 3 cases of cutaneous hypersensitivity to icodextrin and discuss the pathogenesis of this reaction. OBSERVATIONS The cutaneous adverse reaction was psoriasiform in our 3 cases. The erup...