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Allergies
Definition
Allergies Definition
The term allergy is used to describe a response, within the body, to a substance, which is not necessarily harmful in itself, but results in an immune response and a reaction that causes symptoms and disease in a predisposed person, which in turn can cause inconvenience, or a great deal of misery.
An allergy is everything from a runny nose, itchy eyes and palate to skin rash. It aggravates the sense of smell, sight, tastes and touch causing irritation, extreme disability and sometimes fatality. It occurs when the body's immune system overreacts to normally harmless substances.
Latest Allergies News
New Therapy May stop allergic reactions from occurring
Researchers have found a breakthrough approach to allergy treatment. The new method inhibits food allergies, drug allergies, and asthmatic reactions without suppressing the body’s entire immune system.more
10 14, 2011
Black Children More Likely to Have Food Allergies
Black children are more than twice as likely to have sensitivities to food allergies compared with white children, according to new research published in the journal Pediatrics.more
09 07, 2011
Hypoallergenic Baby Formula Does Not Reduce Risk of Allergies
Feeding infants with a hypoallergenic baby formula does not reduce the child's risk of developing allergies later in life, a new study has found.more
07 17, 2011
Allergy vaccine is nothing to sneeze at
Monash University researchers are working on a vaccine that could completely cure asthma brought on by house dust mite allergies.more
03 22, 2011
Pollen also appears outside flowering season
"There is of course a very close relationship between the moment at which pollen is released by plants and the data gathered by the traps used to measure these grains, but this is not always the case", Rafael Tormo, a botanist from the University of Extremadura and co-author of the paper, tells SINC...more
03 18, 2011
Vaccinated children not at higher risk of infections or allergic diseases
May vaccinations put too much strain on or weaken children's immune systems and are therefore harmful? Roma Schmitz and her colleagues from the Robert Koch Institute investigate exactly this research question in the current issue of Deutsches Ärzteblatt International (Dtsch Arztebl Int...more
03 04, 2011
Low vitamin D levels linked to allergies in kids
A study of more than 3,000 children shows that low vitamin D levels are associated with increased likelihood that children will develop allergies, according to a paper published in the February 17 online edition of the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology...more
02 24, 2011
Allergies lower risk of low- and high-grade glioma
The more allergies one has, the lower the risk of developing low- and high-grade glioma, according to data published in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research.more
02 07, 2011
New markers for allergic disorders thanks to analysis of medical databases
Researchers at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, have developed new methods for analysing medical databases that can be used to identify diagnostic markers more quickly and to personalise medication for allergic disorders. They could also reduce the need for animal trials in clinical studies.more
01 11, 2011
Desensitisation approaches effective against hayfever-like allergies
Immunotherapy given as pills or drops under the tongue is a safe and effective way to treat hayfever-like allergies caused by pollen and dust mites, according to a new Cochrane Systematic Review. more
12 08, 2010
