asthma is a complicated disorder, whose prevalence has increased over the past few decades.asthma is characterized by infiltration of inflammatory leukocytes along with enhancedproinflammatory cytokines and chemokines. fungi are now far more widely being considered as thedominant extrinsic trigger for asthma. fungi are linked to the severity of asthma in many ways. somedifferences between studi...

background: asthma, allergic rhinitis and eczema as a common disorder in childhood, has many epidemiologic variations in different geographic areas. this study aimed at determining the prevalence of pediatric allergic disease in rural area of babol. methods: this analytical-cross sectional study was performed in 2012 by random sampling on 2 groups of children the first group aged 6-7 years (n=1...

Vol. 10 No. 1, January-March 2008 5 Introduction Allergic fungal sinusitis is a benign noninvasive sinus disease, believed to be an allergic reaction to aerosolized environmental fungi. It has been almost three decades when in 1976 Safirstein noted that the combination of polyposis, crust formation and sinus cultures yielding aspergillus was similar to the constellation of findings observed in ...

Cow's milk allergy (CMA) is a complex disorder. Numerous milk proteins have been implicated in allergic responses and most of these have been shown to contain multiple allergenic epitopes. There is considerable heterogeneity amongst allergic individuals for the particular proteins and epitopes to which they react, and to further complicate matters, allergic reactions to cow's milk are driven by...

Background Allergic rhinitis (AR) is a heterogeneous disorder that despite its high prevalence is often undiagnosed. The quality of life is significantly impaired in subjects with allergic rhinitis, but can be improved by treatment . However, the condition may frequently be trivialised (by the patient) and/or unrecognised (by the physician), resulting in the inadequate control of symptoms. Many...

asthma is a chronic inflammatory disorder of the airways. the stress is a factor for asthma which indicates a disorder in the function of communicational mediators of nervous and  immunological systems  such  as  neurotransmitters.  a  study  indicated  that  blood serotonin concentration increases in asthmatic patients. other study indicates that one kind of the serotonin  receptors, named 5ht...

introduction allergic rhinitis, like other allergic diseases, is one of the most common disorders during childhood; this study was conducted to assess and compare the prevalence and severity of allergic rhinitis in children and adolescents living in kurdistan province. the study was aimed to provide a ground for the identification of likely causes and risk factors of this disorder. materials an...

OBJECTIVE Previous studies have reported comorbidity of attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and allergic diseases. The current study investigated ADHD like behavioral symptoms and parenting stress in pediatric allergic rhinitis. METHODS Eighty-seven children (6-13 years old) with allergic rhinitis and 73 age- and sex-matched children of control group were recruited. Diagnosis ...

Allergic rhinitis is a common disorder and involves the reaction to environmental allergens with resultant nasal and eye symptoms. The pathophysiologic mechanisms of the eye symptoms in allergic conjunctivitis include a direct effect on the eye by deposited allergen and indirect effects related to the deposition of allergen in the nasal mucosa. One of these proposed mechanisms is the existence ...