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Bee venom injection therapy is an alternative treatment sometimes used for chronic inflammatory diseases, including rheumatoid arthritis and multiple sclerosis, to reduce pain. Several chemical components of bee venom have...
Apitoxin, honeybee venom, is used in alternative medicine as a treatment option for arthritis and chronic pain because it is reported to have an anti-inflammatory property. Hypersensitivity responses to bee...
Im SG, Jung JW, Song HJ, Lee YM, Suh YJ, Nahm DH, Park HS
KMID: 1985136
Korean J Med.
2002 Nov;63(5):587-590.
Anaphylaxis is the most common systemic allergic reaction caused by bee stings. Delayed-type allergic reactions, including serum sickness, occur much less frequently. We report a 27-year-old man who developed serum...
The usual reactions after an insect sting are mild redness and swelling at the stinging site, and the most serious reaction is anaphylaxis. There have been isolated reports of late-onset...
Immune complex deposits have been found in the choroid plexus in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus, and it can be assumed that an immune complex injury to the choroid plexus...
Immunosuppressive therapy based on the use of antilymphocyte globulin (ALG) has become standard therapy for patients with splastic anemia who are not eligible for bone marrow transplantation. In this study,...
Jung IS, Seo YS, Cheong MA, Lee JY, Ahn YS, Kim SH
KMID: 2285872
J Asthma Allergy Clin Immunol.
2002 Dec;22(4):747-750.
There have been few reports of manifestations such as vasculitis, nephrosis, neuritis, encephalitis, and serum sickness occuring in a temporal relation to insect stings. Symptoms usually start several days to...
Propyphenazone (1,2-dihydro-1,5-dimethyl-4-(isopropyl)-2- phenyl-pyrazol-3-one: isopropylantipyrine) is a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) and widely used as a mild analgesic. Allergy-like reactions, such as urticaria, anaphylaxis, hemolytic anemia and serum sickness, have been...
PURPOSE: The aim of this study was to evaluate the feasibility and safety of our antivenin treatment protocol for patients with Korean Viperidae envenomation.
METHODS: We developed an antivenin treatment protocol...