Allergies
Definition
Allergies are abnormal reactions of the immune system to substances that are otherwise harmless.
Description
Allergies are among the most common medical disorders. By some estimat...
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Allergies
An allergy is an excessive or hypersensitive response of the immune system to harmless substances in the environment. Instead of fighting off a disease-causing foreign substance, the immune ...
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Allergies
Allergies are abnormal reactions of the immune system which occur in response to otherwise harmless substances.
Allergies are among the most common of medical disorders. It is estimated that...
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Delayed Hypersensitivity Skin Test
A delayed hypersensitivity test is an immune function test measuring the presence of activated T cells that recognize a certain substance.
The immune system protects...
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Physical Allergy
Physical allergies are allergic reactions to cold, sunlight, heat, or minor injury. The immune system is designed to protect the body from harmful invaders such as germs. Occasionally...
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Allergies
An allergy is an excessive or hypersensitive response of the immune system to harmless substances in the environment. Instead of fighting off a disease-causing foreign substance, the immune ...
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Allergy
An allergy is a reaction to a foreign substance by a person sensitive to that substance. Allergies are part of the body's immune mechanisms. They are triggered when an antigen--a substance for...
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Allergies
A hypersensitive response by the immune system to a foreign substance that is ordinarily harmless.
Allergies account for more office visits to pediatricians than any other ailment, besides t...
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Elimination Diet
A systematic approach for diagnosing food allergies.
An elimination diet is the systematic elimination of different foods and food groups from the diet as a means of diagnosing food a...
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The unseasonably warm weather along the East Coast has flooded some offices with patients suffering from an unusual ailment this time of year: allergies.Doctors say this winter's weather has sparke...
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The American Medical Association voted Monday to lobby for laws allowing severely allergic children to bring lifesaving medicine to school.Many school districts have policies prohibiting children f...
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Breast-feeding helps prevent babies' allergies, but there's no good evidence for avoiding certain foods during pregnancy, using soy formula or delaying introduction of solid foods beyond six months...
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(Embargoed for release at 12:01 a.m. EST on Monday,
Dec. 3) By Andrew Stern CHICAGO (Reuters) - Allergies to peanuts and other
foods are showing up in children at younger ages for reasons
that ar...
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Ten people, including four doctors, have been charged with swindling insurance companies out of more than $1.5 million by providing hundreds of patients with allergy shots without proper testing an...
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Dear Jane,My kids have terrible allergies. What can I do around the house to ease their suffering this season?Thanks,Mary D. Dear Mary, While all the allergy-proofing in the world won...
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CHICAGO (Reuters) - Childhood allergies to milk and
eggs appear to be harder to outgrow than in the past, U.S.
researchers said Wednesday. While they were often outgrown by age 3 two decades ago,
...
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The American Medical Association voted Monday to lobby for laws allowing severely allergic children to bring lifesaving medicine to school.Many school districts have policies prohibiting children f...
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Berlin (dpa) - Many parents go to extremes to protect their infant
children from germs. Their kitchen floor is always spick and span,
the baby formula is sterilized and they...
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Moenchengladbach, Germany (dpa) For many people contact with
household pets is a normal part of their daily routine.
But enjoyment of animals can quickly turn...
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