Urticaria or Hives Urticaria with or without angioedema is frequently encountered in primary care medicine. If the urticaria is of short duration, it is usual...
Food Allergic Patient Management Current management of food-allergic patients consists of the dietary avoidance of causal foods and optimizing the prompt treatment of sympt...
Food Allergic Patient Evaluation - Food Challenges The goal of performing an oral food challenge is to document the presence or lack of clinical reactivity to a food. Oral food challenges ar...
Food Allergic Patient Evaluation - Elimination Diets Elimination diets are used in both the diagnosis and treatment of patients suffering from adverse reactions to foods, regardless of the mec...
Food Allergic Patient Evaluation - Laboratory Testing While prick skin testing to foods determines the presence of food allergen- specific IgE bound to specific receptors on the surface of mast...
Food Allergic Patient Evaluation - Atopy Patch Testing Although prick skin testing and the measurement of serum food-specific IgE antibodies are indispensable in the evaluation of patients with ...
Food Allergic Patient Evaluation - Prick Skin Testing Skin testing to foods is essentially a bioassay that involves introducing miniscule amounts of food allergens into the patient’s epidermis ...
Diagnosis of Food Allergy - Physical examination The focus of the physical examination varies, depending upon the patient’s presenting symptoms, their acuity, chronicity, and the mechanism...
Diagnosis of Food Allergy Accurately diagnosing patients complaining of adverse reactions to foods requires a certain amount of detective work that begins by obtaini...
Kidney Replacement Therapy On the one hand, you can take the phrase ‘kidney replacement’ literally: some people do actually receive, via transplantation, a new, well-...
Sport and Diabetic Nephropathy Physical activity has always been one of the pillars of diabetes therapy. This is not only because of its beneficial effects on lowering bl...
Pregnancy and Diabetic Nephropathy Today, it is just as possible for a woman with Type 1 diabetes to become pregnant and have a healthy baby as for someone without diabetes. ...
Diabetes - Prospects Yesterday and Today Just a few decades ago, the diagnosis of nephropathy was a reason to be very concerned about the future. People who were found to have a hi...
Diabetes - What Else Problems To Consider? Urinary Tract Infection Many women with diabetes suffer especially frequently from urinary tract infections. These are 2–4 times more comm...
Diabetes - Poor Circulation In The Legs Another very common problem in people with diabetes and accompanying nephropathy, particularly those who smoke, is circulatory problems in ...
Diabetes and Arteriosclerosis As the central control station for all bodily functions, the brain is of enormous importance. The brain cells require lots of energy and a ...