Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Allergen immunotherapy, also known as desensitization or hypo-sensitization, is a medical treatment for environmental allergies (such as insect bites) and asthma. [1] [2] Immunotherapy involves exposing people to larger and larger amounts of allergens in an attempt to change the immune system's response.
(95004–95199) allergy and clinical immunology (95250–95251) endocrinology (95803–96020) neurology and neuromuscular procedures (96101–96125) central nervous system assessments/tests (neuro-cognitive, mental status, speech testing) (96150–96155) health and behavior assessment/intervention
The Allergy and Immunology Clinical Fellowship Program is open to physicians who are on track to complete an approved internal medicine or pediatric medicine residency program. [19] Fellows are eligible to sit for the Board of Allergy and Immunology certification examination after two years.
Immunotherapy involves exposing people to larger and larger amounts of allergen in an effort to change the immune system's response. [ 6 ] Meta-analyses have found that injections of allergens under the skin is effective in the treatment in allergic rhinitis in children [ 132 ] [ 133 ] and in asthma. [ 131 ]
A working party of the British Society for Allergy and Clinical Immunology reviewed the role of conventional high dose specific allergen immunotherapy (not EPD) in the treatment of allergic disease and recommends high dose specific allergen immunotherapy for treating summer hay fever uncontrolled by conventional medication and for wasp and bee ...
The nomenclature of monoclonal antibodies is a naming scheme for assigning generic, or nonproprietary, names to monoclonal antibodies.An antibody is a protein that is produced in B cells and used by the immune system of humans and other vertebrate animals to identify a specific foreign object like a bacterium or a virus.
Immunotherapy can also be used to treat allergies. While allergy treatments (such as antihistamines or corticosteroids) treat allergic symptoms, immunotherapy can reduce sensitivity to allergens, lessening its severity. Allergen immunotherapy can also be referred to as allergen desensitization or hypo-sensitization. [71]
The RAST is a radioimmunoassay test to detect specific IgE antibodies to suspected or known allergens for the purpose of guiding a diagnosis about allergy. [10] [11] IgE is the antibody associated with Type I allergic response: for example, if a person exhibits a high level of IgE directed against pollen, the test may indicate the person is allergic to pollen (or pollen-like) proteins.