Hope for Allergy Sufferers
If you have any family member who is allergic to house dust mites, you must know how bad he/she feels when sneezing, wheezing, eye inflammation and asthma flared up. Switzerland’s Cytos Biotech (via Reuters) announced positive results of the study of its vaccine:
The intermediate-phase trial involving 20 patients, aged 18-56, with nose and eye symptoms and asthma caused by house dust mite allergy, evaluated the safety, tolerability and efficacy of a 10-week treatment with the vaccine, CYT005-AllQbG10, in conjunction with house dust mite allergen.
Cytos said the vaccine is believed to enhance the establishment of a so-called Th1 type immune response, which has been shown to suppress “allergic” Th2 type immune responses.
A while ago my husband got an eye inflammation caused by allergies. Now he’s fully recovered from it. Our family doctor told us there’s no medication for curing. He prescribed cortisone to suppress the symptoms, regardless of some side effects we didn’t want. We’ll wait and see if any vaccine can help.
February 6th, 2008 at 2:58 pm
Are Allergies and Asthma Related?
When we hear of allergy and asthma studies, we often find them lumpted together. Is there really a connection between allergies and asthma? To get to the answer to this, we must first learn what allergies and asthma actually are.