Alergia de las vías respiratorias
- Rodríguez Rodríguez, Mercedes
- Antolín Amérigo, D.
- Barbarroja Escudero, José
- Álvarez de Mon Soto, Melchor
ISSN: 0304-5412
Year of publication: 2013
Issue Title: Enfermedades del sistema inmune (II): patología alérgica
Series: 11
Issue: 29
Pages: 1797-1807
Type: Article
More publications in: Medicine: Programa de Formación Médica Continuada Acreditado
Abstract
The respiratory tract shall be contemplated as a "unique airway", considering both asthma and rhinitis with their clinical manifestations or co morbidities in conjunction. In order to perform the allergologic assessment it is essential to discern the allergens which surround the patient, allowing together with a detailed anamnesis to establish a suspected diagnosis. This diagnosis shall be confirmed by skin prick testing in the vast majority of the cases. The allergologic diagnosis offers the possibility of cure, whenever the allergen may be eliminated or prevented from the environment, or at least, it eases preventive measures to diminish its exposition in order to grant, in a great deal of cases, an etiologic treatment, namely immunotherapy, which may modify and control the allergic response.