Food Allergies for Dummies by Robert A. Wood, MD, Professor of Pediatrics and Chief of Pediatric Allergy and Immunology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine with Jo Kraynak, Wiley Publishing, Inc. 2007
pg 38 - "Reliable asthma studies show at least a 100 percent increase in the prevalence of asthma (an allergy-related disease) over the last 30 years. The rise in asthma appears to have preceded the rise in food allergy (which is a source of confusion) although experts believe that similar mechanisms likely underlie the dramatic increases in all allergic diseases."
Asthma is a chronic inflammatory pulmonary disorder that is characterized by reversible obstruction of the airways.
Since the 1980s there has been a worldwide increase in the prevalence of asthma in both children and adults. This escalating prevalence has led to significant increases in morbidity and mortality due to the disease. In the United States, asthma is the main reason for the hospitalization of children and for school absenteeism due to a chronic disease; the overall death rate from asthma has increased by 40% from 1982-1992 [ Beers and Berkow, 1999]. Additionally, the annual total cost of treating asthma in the United States is more than $6 billion.
However, the airway inflammation that is noted in asthma is due to an immune-mediated process in which inflammatory cells and inflammatory mediators enter airway tissues to cause disease. Many cell-mediated immunologic factors participate in the inflammatory process of asthma. The most important inflammatory cells involved are eosinophils, mast cells, and T lymphocytes.
http://www.merckmedicus.com/pp/us/hcp/diseasemodules/asthma/default.jsp
Important Asthma Triggers
Environmental Tobacco Smoke (Secondhand Smoke)
Dust Mites
Outdoor Air Pollution
Cockroach Allergen
Pets
Mold
Other Triggers
Strenuous physical exercise; some medicines; bad weather such as thunderstorms, high humidity, or freezing temperatures; and some foods and food additives can trigger an asthma attack.
Strong emotional states can also lead to hyperventilation and an asthma attack.
http://www.cdc.gov/asthma/faqs.htm
Asthma and
allergies often go hand-in-hand. Asthma is a disease of the branches of the
windpipe (bronchial tubes), which carry air in and out of the lungs. There
are several different types of asthma.
Allergic asthma is a type of
asthma that is triggered by an allergy (for example, pollen or
mold spores). According to the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and
Immunology, half of the 20 million Americans with asthma have allergic
asthma.
http://www.webmd.com/allergies/guide/asthma-allergies
Allergic asthma is the most common type of asthma. About 90% of kids with childhood asthma have allergies, compared with about 50% of adults. Inhaling specific substances called allergens (allergy triggers, such as pollen, mites, or molds) brings on the asthma symptoms associated with allergic asthma. Nearly everyone with asthma (allergic or nonallergic) gets worse after exercising in cold air or after inhaling any type of smoke, dust, fumes, and sometimes strong smells.
If you have allergic asthma, your airways are hypersensitive to the allergens to which you've become sensitized. Once these allergens get into your airways, your immune system overreacts. The muscles around your airways tighten (an effect called bronchospasm). The airways themselves become inflamed and flooded with thick mucus.
http://www.webmd.com/asthma/guide/allergic-asthma
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Furthermore, the antigen can be derived or obtained from any virus, bacterium, parasite, protozoan, or fungus, and can be a whole organism.
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Epidemiology 1997 Nov;8(6):678-80 Is infant immunization a risk factor for childhood asthma or allergy? This study followed 1,265 children born in 1977. The 23 children who received no DPT and polio immunizations had no recorded asthma episodes or consultations for asthma or other allergic illness before age 10 years; in the immunized children, 23.1% had asthma episodes, 22.5% asthma consultations, and 30% consultations for other allergic illness. Similar differences were observed at ages 5 and 16 years. PMID 9345669
Bull Eur Physiopathol Respir 1987;23 Suppl 10:111s-113s A model for experimental asthma: provocation in guinea-pigs immunized with Bordetella pertussis states, “ Guinea-pigs were sensitized with killed Bordetella pertussis…the presence of the immediate type of immune response was verified by passive cutaneous anaphylaxis……B. pertussis not only alters adrenergic function but provocation in B. pertussis-sensitized guinea-pigs seems to be a good model for bronchial asthma. PMID 2889487
JAMA p1994 Aug 24-31;272(8):592-3 Pertussis vaccination and asthma: is there a link?
A study of 450 children, 11% of the children who had received the pertussis vaccination suffered from asthma, as compared with only 2% of the children who had not been vaccinated. PMID 8057511
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The non-specific enhancement of allergy. III. Precipitation of bronchial anaphylactic reactivity in primed rats by injection of alum or B. pertussis vaccine: relation of response capacity to IgE and IgG2a antibody levels. …..These results show that injection of alum or B. pertussis vaccine without antigen can precipitate/enhance anaphylactic response capacity and production of specific and non-specific IgE and IgG2a. PMID 6307077