individual approaches to the diagnosis and management of penicillin allergy are practiced    by clinicians.   this cross-sectional survey of physicians was aimed at exploring their ways of dealing with diagnosis and management of penicillin g allergy.   of the 235 respondents, 63% believed patients’ self-reported history of penicillin allergy and avoided using penicillin g;     97% do so for pa...

macular or maculopapular skin reactions are frequent events in skin allergies as well as in viral infections. clinically, the differentiation may be difficult in the absence of a clear relationship with drug intake or in the failure to detect measles virus-specific antibodies. studies on drug-specific t cell lines and t cell clones isolated from skin-allergy patients have suggested that these c...

OBJECTIVE There has been growing interest in vitamin D insufficiency as a predisposing factor for allergy development based on immunoregulatory properties and epidemiological studies. The aim of this study was to investigate the association between vitamin D exposure in utero and allergic outcomes in the first year of life. METHODS Cord blood (CB) vitamin D was measured in 231 high-risk infan...

adverse effects  following immunization  to  vaccines (aefi)  are considered  extremely rare events, the occurrence of which could gain a major role in optimizing allergy diagnosis by cellular tests. the urgent need to eradicate infectious diseases from population, is the main goal of vaccination campaign, therefore its successful outcome should be almost undisputable. basophil activation test ...

introduction cow’s milk allergy is the most common food allergy in children. symptoms usually involve the skin and the gastrointestinal and respiratory tracts. gastrointestinal tract manifestations of cow’s milk allergy are nonspecific, and are the only type that can be diagnosed in all age groups. here, we report a rare case of cow's milk allergy in an infant with hypoalbuminemia and malnutrit...

abstract food allergy is estimated about 8% in children. the relationship between food and manifestation of allergy symptoms and its confirmation for accurate diagnosis is very important. allergic rhinitis is a common disease with a prevalence of 40% among different societies. the prevalence of food-induced allergic rhinitis appears to be less than 1 percent. food reactions often lead to rhinit...

The Vaccines and Medications in Pregnancy Surveillance System (VAMPSS) has been designed to assess systematically the safety of vaccines and medications during pregnancy and is suited ideally to evaluate the gestational safety of seasonal and pandemic influenza vaccine and influenza antivirals. VAMPSS is coordinated by the American Academy of Allergy Asthma and Immunology and includes 2 complim...

Results Maternal intake of supplemental vitamin D was significantly correlated with CB 25(OH)D3 concentration (rho = 0.244, p = 0.003) while dietary vitamin D did not influence CB levels. There was significant seasonal variation in CB 25(OH)D3 concentration suggesting that sunlight exposure was an important determinant. Lower CB vitamin D status was observed in infants that developed eczema (p ...

Pollen allergy is the most common form of seasonal respiratory allergic disease in Europe. More than a quarter of a million pollen producing plant species have been catalogued world wide. However, less than 100 of them seem to cause allergies in people. Pollens are part of a plant’s reproductive mechanism (containing the plant’s male sexual component). Pollens are carried from the anther of the...