allergy

Authors: Thomas Plum Thorsten B. Feyerabend Hans-Reimer Rodewald Abstract: Mast cells are regarded as effectors in immune defense against parasites and venoms and play an essential role in the pathology of allergic diseases. More recently, mast cells have been shown to receive stimuli derived...

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24060274/ Abstract Background: It remains elusive how allergic symptoms exhibit prominent 24-hour variations. In mammals the circadian clocks present in nearly all cells, including mast cells, drive the daily rhythms of physiology. Recently, we have shown that...

Published in 2003 https://www.jacionline.org/article/S0091-6749(03)01546-X/fulltext Abstract Background: A need exists to identify biological markers in chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS). Objective: To use an exercise and/or allergen challenge to induce the symptoms of CFS and to identify a...

Population based study: atopy and autoimmune diseases are associated with functional dyspepsia and irritable bowel syndrome, independent of psychological distress Summary Background The pathogenesis of functional GI disorders (FGIDs) is uncertain. However, underlying immune activation and...

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32012984/

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0013935117317280?via%3Dihub

Lately I've been having attacks of red itchy inflammation. It doesn't look too bad on the pictures but it's sore and sometimes itches tremendously. I have very severe ME and although I've had very little light sensitivity, my sound sensitivity is worse and my touch sensitivity even worse. Having...

Full title: Prevalence of gastrointestinal, cardiovascular, autonomic, and allergic manifestations in hospitalized patients with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome: a case-control study https://academic.oup.com/rheumatology/advance-article/doi/10.1093/rheumatology/keaa926/6067343

Posts moved from the long Covid discussion thread. This is a link to the preprint paper referred to in these tweets https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.12.24.20248802v2 My guess is the there may be some people who haven’t recognised the pattern.

About 4 weeks ago I had a bad reaction to something which made my hands break out in bad contact dermatitis (back and front of both hands). This has happened before but I've never got to the bottom of it. (It's a long story but, I cannot use steroids or any creams that contain petroleum...

https://news.sky.com/story/covid-19-vaccine-uk-regulators-warn-people-with-history-of-significant-allergic-reactions-not-to-have-pfizerbiontech-jab-12155916 This makes me more worried about having a vaccine. Throughout my illness, I've had reactions which have worsened my ME symptoms, tho they...

The Pfizer press release reports that protection is achieved 28 days after initiation of the first dose of vaccine. Whereas you can develop covid within a few days of exposure, so the virus wins that race...

Thought the role of nitric oxide was interesting. Open access, https://aacijournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13223-020-00464-8

This thread has been split from Concerns about craniocervical instability surgery in ME/CFS ....I know you have a lot of pull on here @Jonathan Edwards, but I didn't know you didn't believe in MCAS being a real diagnosis. As I live in the States, I have to say that there seem to be a lot of...

https://journals.lww.com/ctg/Fulltext/2020/08000/Extragastrointestinal_Symptoms_and_Sensory.12.aspx

Fritscher-Ravens A, Pflaum T, Mösinger M, et al. Many Patients With Irritable Bowel Syndrome Have Atypical Food Allergies Not Associated With Immunoglobulin E. Gastroenterology. 2019;157(1):109-118.e5. doi:10.1053/j.gastro.2019.03.046...

May be of use to people living with allergies, eczema & asthma https://www.allergyuk.org/get-help/resources/1225-coronavirus-and-allergy-faqs

Split from the Coronavirus Worldwide Spread and Control thread From the COVID-19 symptom tracker app: It shows the prominence of loss of smell. This is data from the UK. It looks like they’re using people who have been tested in this graph. https://covid.joinzoe.com/us Ive been recording...

One major route of transmission of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus is via touching your mouth, nose or eyes after your hands have been in contact with a virally-contaminated surface. Thus washing your hands when you get home is important, and in addition, when you are out and about, applying an...

Don't think this one has been linked to, but I found it interesting. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/0/explosion-food-allergies-behind-boom/ (In the Saturday Telegraph Magazine 8th February, in case someone wants to look it up at their local library or whatever) Also, there seem to be some...