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Some people have a perception of allergic disease as being a collection of rather benign, modifiable, and relatively easily controlled conditions. Though some allergies are more familiar to the general population, other conditions, along with the range and severity of the symptoms, may not be.
A structured approach to care has the opportunity to improve patient outcomes and reduce the cost of allergic diseases.1 Testing is one step in that process that has the potential to provide clinicians with the quantifiable data needed to accelerate the time to diagnosis and treatment.
20% of the population in developed countries are affected by allergy
Getting patients the correct diagnosis—and ultimately the appropriate treatment—relies on information from a variety of sources. An allergy-specific patient history is helpful but can only take a clinician so far in identifying the possible causative allergens. Testing a patient’s level of sensitization to IgE, the antibody released in response to an allergen and that triggers the release of histamine that is responsible for an allergic reaction2—can help improve certainty in your diagnosis.
When conducting the tests ordered by clinicians to help pinpoint culpable allergies, use assays that give quantifiable, reliable results. Assays to measure IgE, that have been given marketing authorizations in many global regions, and that have been included in over 4,000 peer-reviewed publications are available to your lab.3 Choose from a range of assays, all of which give clinicians the accurate, clinically relevant measurements needs to prescribe the most appropriate treatment to patients.4,5
Pawankar R, Holgate ST, Canonica GW, et al. World Allergy Organization (WAO) White Book on Allergy. 2013. http://www.worldallergy.org/UserFiles/file/WhiteBook2-2013-v8.pdf. Accessed November 2017.
American Academy of Allergy Asthma & Immunology. Allergies. http://www.aaaai.org/conditions-and-treatments/allergies. Accessed November 2017.
Johansson SG. ImmunoCAP Specific IgE test: an objective tool for research and routine allergy diagnosis. Expert Rev Mol Diagn. 2004;4:273-279.
FDA. 510(k) Substantial Equivalence Determination Decision Summary. https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/cdrh_docs/reviews/K100999.pdf. Accessed December 2017.
Wang J, Godbold JH, Sampson HA. Correlation of serum allergy (IgE) tests performed by different assay systems. J Allergy Clin Immunol. 2008;121:1219-1224.
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