This is one of the earliest medical reports on record about Pork-Cat Syndrome: “The pork-cat syndrome: effect of sensitization to cats on sensitization to pork meat. Apropos of a case“, [article in French] M. Drouet, M.G. Lauret and A. Sabbah, Allergie et Immunologie, 1994 Oct;26(8):305-6. The authors, at Laboratoire d’Immuno-Allergologie, CHU, Angers, France, report: “A […]
Tag: allergy
Cat color and allergies?
Investigator G.J. Reynolds writes: Here’s a nice little set of papers on how the color of a cat affects its owners allergies. First, a 2000 abstract in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunologyestablishing that owners of lighter-colored cats have fewer symptoms than owners of darker-colored cats [one of the authors, Clifford Bassett, is pictured here in lieu […]
Cockroach Under-the-Tongue Safety Study
Investigator Mark Natter alerts us to an ongoing study by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID): Sublingual Cockroach Safety Study (SCSS) This study is ongoing, but not recruiting participants. ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00434421 Purpose: Immunotherapy may help reduce symptoms of allergy and asthma. Problems concerning compliance and adverse events with subcutaneous allergen immunotherapy […]