Allergy and Immunology News of the Day

Health News of the Day is a daily summary made from the selected links I post on Twitter. It is in a bullet points format with links to the original sources which include 350 RSS feeds that produce about 2,500 items per day.

• Chronic urticaria is a common skin disease without an etiology in the majority of cases. In chronic urticaria, blood basophils display altered IgE receptor-mediated degranulation, reverts in disease remission http://bit.ly/gLZ6W
  
  
• Two subtypes of cholinergic urticaria are proposed: sweat-hypersensitivity type and follicular type http://bit.ly/11Yz4
  
  
• Intranasal corticosteroids improve ocular allergy through the naso-ocular reflex, a class effect http://bit.ly/7RuIr
  
  
• Some studies suggest a relationship between intranasal steroids and increased IOP. Large prospective studies are lacking http://bit.ly/3GMlH3
  
  
• Methotrexate helpful in moderate to severe adult atopic eczema, mean effective dose was 15 mg http://bit.ly/9qeOI
  
  
• Obesity predisposes to Th17 bias - a T-cell lineage subset with prominent pro-inflammatory roles http://bit.ly/IBaH9
  
  
• Increased urine IgM excretion predicts cardiovascular events in patients with type 1 diabetes nephropathy http://bit.ly/ZJLiH
  
  
• Severe chronic upper airway disease (SCUAD) = uncontrolled allergic rhinitis, NAR, chronic rhinosinusitis, AERD, etc. http://bit.ly/FUjrI

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