by cristiano | Oct 17, 2018
Spirometry is the best tool for assessing lung function in asthmatic children, and allows to define the disease severity, monitor the response to pharmacological treatment and achieve symptoms control. Patient’s history and physical examination alone, not combined...
by cristiano | Oct 17, 2018
The diagnosis of acute urticaria is basically clinical and infections (in particular viral infections) account the far most common cause during childhood. Testing patients for allergies is indicated only when there is a close temporal relationship between food...
by cristiano | Oct 17, 2018
Several methods are constantly proposed to diagnose the so-called “food intolerance”; these procedures includes VEGA-test, Cytotoxic test, serum specific IgG4 dosage, hair analysis and “bioresonance” techniques. None of these procedure has sufficient scientific...
by cristiano | Oct 17, 2018
In absence of clinical history of signs/symptoms of suspect hypersensitivity reaction (i.e.: urticaria or other typical muco-cutaneous manifestations, angioedema, hypotension, dyspnoea, simultaneous involvement of two or more organs/apparatus…) allergometric...
by cristiano | Oct 17, 2018
Asthma-like symptoms (dyspnoea, chest tightness, cough, wheezing) are not enough to put a correct diagnosis of asthma.The international guidelines stress the need to perform lung function assessment in order to identify the presence of airway hyperreactivity or...
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