Social Aspects of Allergy

Immunological aspects of food allergy

Food allergy is a clinical manifestation of an immunological process in which specific antibodies or sensitized T-lymphocytes interact with food constituents. The reaction may occur after ingestion of the particular food, after inhalation or by epicutaneous contact. A distinction must be made between food allergy, which is an immunological process, and other disorders provoked by foods. Adverse...

Clinical aspects of food allergy

Food allergy affects 2.5 "b of adults and 6-8 "b of children, and is a leading cause of life-threatening anaphylactic episodes. Food allergy is defined as an adverse reaction to foods that is mediated immunologically and involves specific IgE or non-IgE mechanisms. In this review only IgErelated food allergy will be considered. Many food allergens are glycoproteins, but they do not share any st...

Genetic Aspects of Respiratory Allergy

Clinical aspects of contact allergy to corticosteroids.

Because of their anti-inflammatory activity, corticosteroids generally mask the clinical signs of a contact dermatitis to a corticosteroid preparation. The lesions usually present as chronic dermatitis, and the patients mostly report not exacerbations but failures to respond to corticosteroid therapy. Moreover, masking also occurs with patch-test reactions obtained with corticosteroid preparati...

Feeding Infants with Cow’s Milk and Soy Allergy: Social and Economic Aspects of Efficacy

Cow’s milk protein and/or soy allergies are common in infants. They appear at an early infant stage and remain important in clinical practice from one up to three years. This problem has arisen through a historical tradition to diversify infant feeding with cow’s milk. One of the causes for this rarely observed allergy was the rapid increase in the use of artificial feeding formulas in the 20 c...