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Skin tests in the study of asthma and other allergic diseases in childhood
330
THE;
Rhinology Wishart,
in Children. D. E. S.:
JOURNAL,
OF
ALLsRGP
Resume of and Comments Largngoscope 45: 603, 1939.
on the Literature
for 1938.
In an interesting summary the author has chosen what he considers the most significant contributions in 1938 to the subject of rhinology in children. His own comments are not the least interesting portion of the text. The presence of unthe inability of anyone save a recognized sinusitis, the dangers of benzedrine, rhinologist to examine the nose, the advantages of conservatism in sinus surgery of the asthmatic patient, and the dangers in infants and very young children of pulmonary damage from nasal instillations arc some of the subjects upon which he makes his position clear.
Skin
Tests in the Study
Becker,
C:.:
of Asthma
Monatschr.
f. Kinderh.
and Other Allergic 81: 65, 1939.
Diseases in Childhood.
This article is an account of five years’ experience with allergic cases in a Oerman children’s hospital. At first, both intracutaneous and scratch tests were used, but soon the latter were dropped and only intradermal tests done. No Mixtures of related antigens were used for serious reactions were encountered. initial tests, which included bacteria, foods, fungi, pollen. environmental antigens, and human dander. Seventy-eight per cent of the eightyseven cases gave positive skin Forty-three patients reacted to house and environmental antigens, thirty-three bacteria, nineteen to animal (landers, five to foods, and only- one to pollen. fall in blood eosinophile> during an attack and their rise following an attack frequently noted. It is concluded history and skin
that the approach tests is the method
to the study of choice.
Investigation of the Calcium and Phosphorus and Cow’s Milk and Their Ultrafiltrates. Kinderh.
80:
157,
of
Content
allergic
diseases
tests.
by way
to The were of
of Raw and Heated Human
Weingartner,
T,.:
Monatschr.
f.
1939.
The phosphorus content of raw and sterilized milk is about the same, whereas heated human milk has 28 per cent less phosphorus than raw human milk. If the two forms of human milk are passed through the ultrafilter, the difference becomes 40.5 per cent. On the other hand there is almost no difference in the ultrafiltrate of the two forms of cow’s milk. An organic acid phosphorus combination, as well as an inorganic acid phosphorus colloid combination, are assumed to account for this effect. There is also a reduction in calcium which amounts to 19.3 per cent in heated human milk as compared with unheated human milk. If both forms are passed through an ultrafilter, this difference in calcium contents no longer exists. Heated cow’s milk does not show any significant reduction in calcium content over the raw form. Mineral metabolism disturbances in premature infants fed sterilized human milk may rest on this basis.
Contribution Monatschr.
to the Pathogenesis f. Kinderh.
80:
of Exudative
Eczematoid.
Hiillstrung,
H.:
1, 1939.
In accord with the teaching of Czerny in regard cause of exudative eczematoid lesions is thought to olism. That there is an alteration in the carbohydrate the frequently found hypoglycemia. In contrast
to exudative diathesis, the be a disturbance in metabmetabolism is indicated by with eczema, exudative
THE;
Rhinology Wishart,
in Children. D. E. S.:
JOURNAL,
OF
ALLsRGP
Resume of and Comments Largngoscope 45: 603, 1939.
on the Literature
for 1938.
In an interesting summary the author has chosen what he considers the most significant contributions in 1938 to the subject of rhinology in children. His own comments are not the least interesting portion of the text. The presence of unthe inability of anyone save a recognized sinusitis, the dangers of benzedrine, rhinologist to examine the nose, the advantages of conservatism in sinus surgery of the asthmatic patient, and the dangers in infants and very young children of pulmonary damage from nasal instillations arc some of the subjects upon which he makes his position clear.
Skin
Tests in the Study
Becker,
C:.:
of Asthma
Monatschr.
f. Kinderh.
and Other Allergic 81: 65, 1939.
Diseases in Childhood.
This article is an account of five years’ experience with allergic cases in a Oerman children’s hospital. At first, both intracutaneous and scratch tests were used, but soon the latter were dropped and only intradermal tests done. No Mixtures of related antigens were used for serious reactions were encountered. initial tests, which included bacteria, foods, fungi, pollen. environmental antigens, and human dander. Seventy-eight per cent of the eightyseven cases gave positive skin Forty-three patients reacted to house and environmental antigens, thirty-three bacteria, nineteen to animal (landers, five to foods, and only- one to pollen. fall in blood eosinophile> during an attack and their rise following an attack frequently noted. It is concluded history and skin
that the approach tests is the method
to the study of choice.
Investigation of the Calcium and Phosphorus and Cow’s Milk and Their Ultrafiltrates. Kinderh.
80:
157,
of
Content
allergic
diseases
tests.
by way
to The were of
of Raw and Heated Human
Weingartner,
T,.:
Monatschr.
f.
1939.
The phosphorus content of raw and sterilized milk is about the same, whereas heated human milk has 28 per cent less phosphorus than raw human milk. If the two forms of human milk are passed through the ultrafilter, the difference becomes 40.5 per cent. On the other hand there is almost no difference in the ultrafiltrate of the two forms of cow’s milk. An organic acid phosphorus combination, as well as an inorganic acid phosphorus colloid combination, are assumed to account for this effect. There is also a reduction in calcium which amounts to 19.3 per cent in heated human milk as compared with unheated human milk. If both forms are passed through an ultrafilter, this difference in calcium contents no longer exists. Heated cow’s milk does not show any significant reduction in calcium content over the raw form. Mineral metabolism disturbances in premature infants fed sterilized human milk may rest on this basis.
Contribution Monatschr.
to the Pathogenesis f. Kinderh.
80:
of Exudative
Eczematoid.
Hiillstrung,
H.:
1, 1939.
In accord with the teaching of Czerny in regard cause of exudative eczematoid lesions is thought to olism. That there is an alteration in the carbohydrate the frequently found hypoglycemia. In contrast
to exudative diathesis, the be a disturbance in metabmetabolism is indicated by with eczema, exudative