Word: allergens
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...distance-style therapy. Sent off by Bade County's Mayor Chuk Hall, she took her sinuses to Arizona-as the guest of Mesa's Chamber of Commerce and Jaycees, which have an understandable interest in promoting the curative powers of Arizona's supposedly pollen-free and allergen-free air. There, June still sneezed, but not so often...
There is a simple way to weed out patients who are "allergic to everything": apply two patches with equal pressure, one patch containing suspected allergen and the other inert. If the reaction is the same, the patient has dermographia...
...contains no protein, doctors can use it to diagnose food allergy. If an allergic patient gets well on the diet, a food protein is almost certainly his allergen...
...Latest theory of the complicated workings of allergic reaction: An allergen enters the bloodstream. If there are specific antibodies already present in the blood, the allergen is "conquered" and no symptoms result. But if the body is taken unawares, and antibodies are resting in tissue cells, a terrific battle follows. The offending allergen may be "neutralized," but only with great damage to tissue cells. As the cells are torn, large quantities of the chemical histamine escape into the bloodstream, cause "certain organic reactions ... in the walls of the blood vessels and in the smooth muscles...
...Standard rule in allergy therapy: "Free the patient of exposure, if possible. If not, make him capable of sustaining it." Standard procedure consists of: 1) skin and diet tests to detect the offending substances; 2) injections or feeding of minute quantities of the allergen until immunity is produced. This procedure takes many weary months, often years, has brought a good percentage of successful results with victims of every kind of allergy-from canteloupe to horsehair...