The vinalopo Valley Hospital has treated more than 14,000 patients in Allergology since its opening in 2010.

Elx, 2012-may The service of Allergology of the Hospital of the Vinalopó, coordinated by the Dras. Monica Antón and Carmen Andreu, has attended more than 14,000 patients with allergic disease since its opening in 2010. In addition, that a patient is seen in consultation of Allergology waiting time is less than 30 days.

In this sense, service professionals several testing to measure the degree and type of allergy of each patient. One of the most common tests are the skin, that serve to measure the respiratory allergy, food, medicines and Hymenoptera or known insects.

The most common respiratory allergies are asthma, rhinitis, conjunctivitis, the awareness to mites of dust and dander and skin of animals among others. Nuts, seafood and fish in adults, and the milk, eggs and flour in children, are the foods most frequently produce allergy. Medication ibuprofen, metamizole and penicillin allergy is common, and insects, it is common to find allergic to bees or wasps.

For the measurement of this type of evidence Gets an Antigen into the dermis through injection to achieve a wheal of 2-3 mm in diameter. 20 Minutes is valued the immediate reaction and possible awareness of the patient to certain components analysed.

Other kinds of evidence are those made in patch, which are used for the diagnosis of Contact Eczema and can be useful toward specific allergen and not immediate drug reactions.

Allergic disease difficult in many respects the daily life of the patients, which is why it is important to promote health education for the patient allergic, that must know what his illness, how to avoid triggers, and how to follow the treatment in a correct way. In this regard, it should be noted that environmental allergens more prevalent in the area are dust mites and pollens; order, the chenopodiáceas, grass and olive trees, are the pollens that frequently produce symptoms of respiratory allergy.

High percentage of curing the disease

Allergic disease has a high percentage of healing, for it is important to act preventively through the implementation of a treatment of immunotherapy or vaccination against environmental allergens. This type of treatment is advisable to prevent the deterioration and progression of the disease and is a means of acting quickly to combat the pathology in the best possible way.