News tagged with hypersensitivity
Developmental delay in brain provides clue to sensory hypersensitivity in autism
New research provides insight into why fragile X syndrome, the most common known cause of autism and mental retardation, is associated with an extreme hypersensitivity to sounds, touch, smells, and visual stimuli that causes ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Feb 10, 2010 |
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Outcomes of patients dismissed from the hospital with non-cardiac chest pain
The growing number of Americans with cardiovascular disease has caused a heightened sensitivity in the evaluation of chest pain. In a study published in the April issue of Mayo Clinic Proceedings researchers reported that p ...
Apr 20, 2010 |
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Heparin can cause skin lesions
Heparin, a commonly used anticoagulant, can cause skin lesions, reports a study in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal). Skin lesions caused by heparin may indicate the presence of a life-threatening decrease in t ...
Sep 28, 2009 |
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Daycare, nurseries do not protect against asthma
Frequent colds at the day nursery do not protect against asthma or allergy. Under the motto 'That's good for your resistance', many parents think that children benefit from being exposed to infections at a young age. Dutch ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Dec 08, 2010 |
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Patients with depression frequently suffer from medically unexplained pain
Pain symptoms that cannot be attributed, or at least not fully attributed, to an organic origin are more frequently and more severely experienced by patients with depression than by those without.
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jul 16, 2009 |
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Is somatic hypersensitivity a predictor of irritable bowel syndrome?
Although visceral hypersensitivity is considered a hallmark feature of IBS, conflicting evidence exists regarding somatic hypersensitivity in this patient population. Several investigators have found no evidence for heightened ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Jul 22, 2009 |
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Hypersensitivity
Hypersensitivity (also called hypersensitivity reaction) refers to undesirable reactions produced by the normal immune system. These reactions may be damaging, uncomfortable, or occasionally fatal. Hypersensitivity reactions require a pre-sensitized (immune) state of the host. The four-group classification was expounded by P. H. G. Gell and Robin Coombs in 1963.
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