NEW TREND IN PREVENTION, DIAGNOSIS, TREATMENT AND MANAGEMENT OF ALLERGIC DISEASES

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Currently, it is lack of proactive in clinical practice, patients come to seek medical attention only when they have symptoms, leading to late diagnosis or the disease may progress seriously which affects their health and quality of life.

New approaches in Allergy today include primary prevention: individual genetic research, prenatal and newborn screening to detect diseases before they develop. The scientific evidence for preventing allergic diseases has been proved, such as new intervention strategies on genetics and epigenetic such as environment, diet, gut microbiota, and build up oral tolerance. Thanks to many new molecular techniques in genetics, biochemistry, hematology, molecular immunology, immunofluorescence and imaging diagnosis, allergic diseases determination has been improved.

Regarding allergic diseases treatment, in addition to symptomatic treatment and general immunosuppression, new approaches have also been used which can be mentioned as specific immunotherapy, desensitization to specific respiratory allergens, tolerance induction in treatment of food allergies, and targeted therapy with biological products.

Integrated Practice Units (IPU), a comprehensive management of allergic disease according to a patient-centered model, is a tendency of centers of excellence around the world. Furthermore, the increasing ability to connect patients with doctors and the healthcare system through information technology applications will improve the quality of life for patients as well as reduce the burden on family and society.