Understanding Allergy (Penguin Life Expert Series Book 4)

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Has your doctor suggested that you record your food and drink and non food items reactions and allergies? His wide ranging work begins with the diminution of the germ theory of disease at the beginning of the 20th century, paving the way for notions about hosts' response being as important as external factors in determining disease causation and giving rise to the idea of “altered biological reactivity” encapsulated in von Pirquet's original description of allergy. On top of that, 80% of people with asthma also have allergic rhinitis, and controlling their rhinitis symptoms also improves their asthma (the ‘united airways tract theory’). Perfect for clinicians in both primary and secondary care settings, Allergy Essentials, 2nd Edition, covers the information you need most in your daily practice, with a strong emphasis on disease diagnosis and management. His account of the influence and vested interests of the pharmaceutical giants, some of which cut their global teeth on drug development in the field of allergic diseases, will not be lost on readers.

Mark Jackson charts this rise in a scholarly and richly referenced account that traces the history of allergy through the 20th century to its current position as a problem of epidemic proportions and places it in the context of changes in epidemiology, medical thinking, and modern society.

Allergy is not inevitable, the threshold dose at which a sensitised person develops allergic symptoms not only varies from person to person, but also for the same person with tiredness, exercise, viral illness, stress, alcohol, or co-factors like non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug use. If you are allergic, you are allergic to all cats, whereas you can be allergic to certain dog breeds but not others.

My son had also an unusual presentation of nut allergy, so bemused and in need of help, I reached out for this book. The WAO WHITE BOOK ON ALLERGY provides evidence about the increasing prevalence of allergic diseases worldwide and offers "high level" recommendation for action on allergy education for health care professions and enhanced patient service provision. It covers every aspect of the journey from diagnosis to helping your child on the path to independence. Explains the roles and responsibilities of four key administrative departments with which students and their families must become familiar and how to interact with them at every stage of applying for and attending college. He considers the massive socioeconomic effect of allergy as the engine of a multinational, multimillion pound business in pharmacotherapy and environmental manipulation (consider the number of vacuum cleaners now sold with particulate absorbing filters) and as one of the major causes of work absenteeism in Western countries.That is amazing, as it means that as GPs we can fundamentally influence our patients’ future risk of illness simply by treating eczema as well as we can. Includes new content on allergen-specific immunotherapy as well as a new chapter on precision medicine.