Allergy, Classification and history

Filed under: Allergy - 10 Feb 2008
The concept "allergy" was originally introduced in 1906 by the Viennese pediatrician Clemens von Pirquet, after noting that some of his patients were hypersensitive to normally innocuous entities such as dust, pollen, or certain foods. Pirquet called this phenomenon "allergy" from the Greek words allos meaning "other" and ergon meaning ...

Allergy, What is Allergy?

Filed under: Allergy - 10 Feb 2008
In the following lines I'll try to explain what allergy is. Here is something from wikipedia that we'll discuss upon. Allergy is a disorder of the immune system that is often called atopy. Allergic reactions occur to environmental substances known as allergens; these reactions are acquired, predictable and rapid. Strictly, allergy ...
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