This content is machine translated EAACI Congress in Vienna News about immunotherapy for allergies This year’s EAACI Congress was held in Vienna. Among other things, there was news on immunotherapy for food and inhalant allergy. Oral immunotherapy, in which the respective food protein is…
View Post 7 min This content is machine translated Bacteria, yeast fungi and co. The skin microbiome and its importance for skin diseases The skin microbiome is the term used to describe the totality of all microorganisms on our skin. The microbiome of healthy skin is characterized by a great diversity of different…
View Post 3 min This content is machine translated Joint SSORL/SSAI Meeting Biologics in asthma and aluminum adjuvants in vaccines The fact that asthma is a very heterogeneous disease is especially true for patients with severe asthma. Additional new drugs are needed mainly for patients whose severe asthma is not…
View Post 8 min This content is machine translated Inhalation allergies An “epidemic” affecting a good third of the population Respiratory allergies, especially allergic rhinoconjunctivitis, are very common. They primarily affect the 10-30 age group, but often limit the quality of life much more sensitively in older patients. The main…
View Post 7 min This content is machine translated Allergology in the form of a story The fisherman who became allergic to everything In every occupation and leisure activity, one is exposed to possible allergen sources. The story shows with a concrete example how manifold allergies can be even in an absolutely quiet…
View Post 4 min This content is machine translated Memories of an allergist Acute Quincke’s edema to a lozenge in a two-year-old boy Anamnesis: The not yet two-year-old boy sat on his mother’s lap during a car ride and was given a sweet to suck. Within minutes, massive swelling of the face and…
View Post 4 min This content is machine translated Allergo update 2016 Current developments in allergology What is currently happening in the field of allergology? At the two-day Allergo Update 2016 in Cologne, allergists, dermatologists, ENT specialists, pediatricians and pneumologists from Germany, Austria and Switzerland were…
View Post 7 min This content is machine translated General allergic reactions Emergency management – anaphylaxis is too rarely recognized The most common triggers of anaphylaxis in adults are drugs and insect bites, and food in children. The development and dynamics of anaphylaxis are unpredictable. According to the WAO recommendation…
View Post 11 min This content is machine translated Alternative medicine and atopic eczema Scientific data on the individual methods Complementary medicine methods are used by many sufferers of atopic eczema, although scientific data often do not exist. This is especially true for homeopathy, treatment with Schuessler salts and bioresonance…
View Post 6 min This content is machine translated Light and climate therapy of atopic dermatitis Benefits of treatment in the high mountains For the light therapy of the atopical eczema relatively secured data can be fallen back. Moreover, numerous studies prove the favorable effect mechanisms of a stationary high mountain climatic skin…
View Post 8 min This content is machine translated Memories of an allergist Recurrent Quincke’s edema – first case of “Ovi” allergy in world history. History: The 19-year-old female patient with no family or personal history of allergic diseases had episodes of Quincke’s edema in the facial region in the last three months, which were…
