Case history (patient past history)

The diagnostics of an allergy covers many different examinations because every substance almost is in suspicion to be able to cause allergic reactions. Allergy goes the case history, the diagnostics of one this means troubles and broader accompanying factors if necessary allergically caused the specific interview of the patient ahead by the allergist (doctor for allergies) about his.

There are easily and heavily allergies to be diagnosed. If you always complain for example of typical troubles like eye itchings and cold to a particular season, namely February until April, your doctor can with a simple allergy skin test -- one often still follows for the confirmation of the skin test results barest -- already safeguards the diagnosis and starts a corresponding treatment.

In the case in hand it is hay fever on early blossoming trees like birch, alder, hazel. It behaves differently if rashes appear repeated approximately without a temporal cohesion with a season, an activity, a certain situation or a certain contact substance getting recognizable straight away. Often, a skin test of the 20 or 50 most frequent allergens doesn't help to be altogether for certain of over one thousand allergens considered here further, there.

In these cases, at first leading an allergy diary can help along to localize the triggering activities and situations. To the judgement of positive results of skin and blood tests these must always be checked by a so-called after-case history to make the definite diagnosis.

The after-case history asks e.g. whether the patient is exposed to a substance tested positively at all in the weekday or the symptoms of the patient (e.g. eye itching and cold in February till April) have to be brought with the substances tested positively into harmony these are in store (for goods under the substances pollen tested positively) from birch, alder or hazel from February till April?


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