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Insect venoms

Insect venom is a type of poison that insects use to defend themselves. When they feel threatened, they will either sting or bite any person standing nearby, causing a possible allergic reaction. Some of the well-known insects with venomous bites or stings include wasps, hornets, fire ants, and bees. Most…
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Allergy Factors

Allergy is a disease of the immune system. This enables our body to defend itself against external attacks (bacteria, viruses, parasites…). The immune defence is composed of 2 phases: the recognition of the attacker (specific response), and then the use of different mechanisms to neutralise the attacker (inflammation). The specific…
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Pollen calendar

The intensity of the pollen loads and the beginning and duration of the pollen season change from year to year according to the weather conditions before and during the pollen season. The rising temperatures of climate change are resulting in an earlier pollen season, and, in the case of certain…
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Prevention-Traitement

Therapy, prophylaxis

To combat allergic diseases, we have treatment options as well as preventive measures. Sensitisation and allergy are active processes that change throughout life: the patient may develop new allergies or reduce their reactivity to allergens to which they are already sensitised. Thus, both prevention and treatment are essential in allergic…
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Allergy Career

For several decades now, the incidence of allergy diseases and especially asthma diseases with their considerable effects on health has been steadily increasing among children. According to recent comparative studies on the frequency of allergies in former East Germany and West Germany, this increase is related to our Western lifestyle.
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Cat asthma

WHAT IS CAT ASTHMA? Asthma is a relatively common chronic inflammatory disease of the bronchial tubes in cats. It is a hypersensitivity reaction following sensitisation by an aeroallergen (allergen present in the air). The bronchi undergo variable pathological changes after repeated exposure to the same allergen: airway inflammation (white blood…
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Moulds, fungi

FUNGAL ALLERGY: CAUSES AND FREQUENCY? For a century, fungal spores have been considered a possible cause of respiratory allergies. From the great kingdom of fungi, about 100 species of fungi have been associated with allergic respiratory diseases. In principle, however, only two classes of fungi are relevant for respiratory allergies,…
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Allergic Diseases

The contact of the allergen with the immune system allows allergy antibodies (IgE) specific to that allergen to be produced in a person genetically predisposed to (atopic) allergies. The person is then sensitised to that allergen. After the allergen is recognised by the molecule of IgE, allergic inflammation can be…
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