Dear colleagues. Allergies, intolerances, and rashes affect practically half of people at some point. Hardly any other field of medicine is so heavily discussed, dealt with in forums and the media – many people have many opinions about it. As a doctor and specialist, you are particularly in demand here.
For this reason DERMATOLOGIE PRAXIS takes up the topic here with emphasis and will keep allergies in the focus also in further expenditures.
Three of the most important topics in allergology are food allergies and intolerances, urticaria, and acute exanthema, which are presented to you in a special way in this booklet, with content rarely found elsewhere in the literature. It should also make your daily work with patients easier.
Professor Brunello Wüthrich, still our secret allergy pope in food allergy, will tell about the history of former food allergology in his very readable article. This also serves as an appetizer for a second article (topic: pollen-associated food allergy, oral allergy syndrome and rare trigger pathways), which will then appear in the upcoming DERMATOLOGIE PRAXIS of November 1, .
Professor Peter Schmid-Grendelmeier presents a concise assessment, diagnosis, and approach to urticaria that, in a nutshell, provides valuable help in distinguishing different clinical situations, a parsimonious useful diagnostic approach, and a clear outline for treatment.
For my part, thanks to the great help of the entire dermatology team in St. Gallen, I may present to you results from our study/database with the analysis of over 500 exanthemas of all kinds, how they are distributed, how they are triggered and how you can systematically proceed in case of acute rashes.
I hope you enjoy reading it.
Your
Mark David Anliker, MD
