Results of skin tests 1981 to 1989
Udovicki, J.; Magdu-Colak, R.; Milankov, O.
Medicinski Pregled 43(9-10): 397-401
1990
ISSN/ISBN: 0025-8105 PMID: 2077378 Document Number: 352482
In the aim of proving the existence of organism sensitivity to standard group inhalation antigens, at the ORL Clinic in Novi Sad, in the period of 1981 through July, 1989, intradermal testing was conducted in 1816 patients. The greatest number of positive reactions appeared within the city inhabitants, mostly of female sex. Most frequently they reacted to house dust (53.19%), pollen (37.88%), Ambrosia (18.17%), Dermatophagoides pteronissynus (11.17%), and much less frequently to other allergens. With regard to the fact that intradermal tests are not quite safe, the authors have adopted the prick test in their further work, because it is very easy to perform, it's quick, cheap, very sensitive, and it gives distinctly positive and negative responses. Its correlation with clinical manifestations and RAST is good, and what's most important, it does not cause any local or general side effects.