Allergies: the more you know, the less you suffer - May 2008

Allergies: the more you know, the less you suffer A small 80-page booklet.
New version : May 2008.
This small booklet provides definitions, explanations of different types of allergies, diagnosis, treatments and allergy prevention. Answers with practical advice to improve your everyday quality of life. Food allergy may cause symptoms that may occur very quickly or be delayed for a few hours. Usually, the more severe the reaction, the faster the onset. Read more...

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Are you aware of allergies?

Leaflet of 16 pages. 2001. 
This explanatory brochure can be used as a support for the video "Are you aware of allergies?". The topic of this brochure is the prevention of allergies for newborn babies who might be at risk. The aim is to raise the awareness of parents as to the importance of prevention, encouraging them to act before the symptoms even appear. Some breast-fed children show signs of allergy after the first few feedings because mother’s milk may contain small quantities of cow’s milk allergens..

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Are you aware of allergies? (video)

2001 video. 

The topic of this video is the prevention of allergies in newborn babies who might be at risk. This video is divided in into 5 short films focusing on the different aspects of prevention (milk, a varied diet, doing up the nursery, cigarette smoke, animal, irritants) and medical symptoms. The prevention advice given in this video was validated by studies carried out in various European countries and is intended for future parents of children who could be at risk of developing allergies. The aim is to raise the awareness of parents as to the importance of prevention encouraging them to act before the symptoms even appear. An explanation brochure (available on this website) covering the prevention measures contained within the 5 shorts films is provided with the video. This video was made possible thanks to the co-operation of the Fondation pour la Prévention des Allergies, Allergiepreventie, the O.N.E (office de la Naissance et de l'Enfance), Kind& Gezin and the UCB Institute of Allergy.

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European Allergy White Paper Summary

14-page booklet. 
In the air we breathe, the food we eat, the water we drink and the beds we sleep in, microorganisms and organic molecules, acting by various mechanisms, can invade the body and cause a hypersensitive reaction of the immune system called allergy. While this pathology does not enjoy the same fascination as AIDS, cancer or cardiovascular diseases, it is certainly the most pervasive disorders globally. Allergic conditions now pose a major health problem. They respect no national frontiers and are spreading inexorably through the European population. In an appropriate initial response to this Pan-European invasion, The UCB Institute of Allergy has received the help of leading allergologists across the length and breath of Europe and compiled a meta-analysis of the problem according to the European perspective in The European White Paper. The following synopsis sketches the main points of the European white paper. A 14-page booklet edited in 1997.

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