Background. Practitioners have historically avoided cephalosporins and carbapenems in penicillin allergic patients. Despite recent literature suggesting a lower crosssensitivity than originally reported; practitioners continue to avoid cephalosporins and carbapenems in this patient population. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the tolerability of cephalosporins and carbapenems in patient...

BACKGROUND Allergies have been associated with decreased risk of glioma; but, associations between duration and timing of allergies, and antihistamine use and glioma risk have been less consistent. The objective was to investigate this association by analyzing types, number, years since diagnosis, and age at diagnosis of allergies, and information on antihistamine usage, including type, duratio...

A diagnosis of food allergies should be made based on the observation of allergic symptoms following the intake of suspected foods and the presence of allergen-specific IgE antibodies. The oral food challenge (OFC) test is the most reliable clinical procedure for diagnosing food allergies. Specific IgE testing of allergen components as well as classical crude allergen extracts helps to make a m...

Food allergies have increased in prevalence over the past 20 years, now becoming an important public health concern. Although there are no therapies currently available for routine clinical care, recent reports have indicated that immunotherapies targeting the mucosal immune system may be effective. Oral immunotherapy is conducted by administering small, increasing amounts of food allergen; it ...

The aim of the paper was to asses the relationship between socioeconomic status, the prevalence of allergy and physical development. The data were obtained from 478 female students and 195 male students aged 19-24. The prevalence of allergy in the group surveyed was 14.6% (14.6% in women and 14.4% in men). Allergic diseases were more frequent in students of high socioeconomic status. The result...

Background. Drug allergies are an important part of the patient record. Unlike active problems, medications, and laboratory values, allergies are seldom removed from the record and are not subject to rapid change.' The common method of listing drug allergies in the patient record lacks important information about the allergy or reaction: What reaction occurred? How certain is it that the reacti...

Background Quantitative measurement of basophil cell surface markers, CD63 and CD203c, by flow cytometry has been developed as useful tool for the diagnosis of IgE mediated allergies. Available methods require large volume of blood and include extra steps such as prior cell purification, priming with IL-3, stopping cell activation and fixing. We have developed a new basophil based test which ca...

A 60-year-old truck driver, right-handed, presented with a non-traumatic slow-growing mass on the palm of his left hand. He reported that the mass appeared 3 years prior to consultation, but he failed to seek a medical advice because it did not bother him. The mass slowly grew and started to become painful on palpation. He was referred for excisional biopsy by his family physician because the m...

Case History: 37 month female, weight 13 kg, scheduled for an adenotonsillectomy and bilateral ear tubes in an outpatient facility. The child has a history of loud snoring, hyperactivity and multiple ear infections. Parents state that they have not witnessed apnea while she is sleeping but are impressed by her snoring and that it has been getting worse over the past year. She has no other medic...