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# dollars spent on prescription and non prescrition allergy meds each year
4 billion dollars - does not include any indirect costs/ office visits etc.
what % of the population has allergic rhinitis?
20-25%. most developed early in life, very few after adolescence
is asthma and/or atopic dermatitis mostly atopic?
yes, both have predominantly type 1 hypersenstivity as a cause

atopic predisposition is thought to be genetic
degranulation of a mast cell in the mucosa of the respiratory or GI tract requires?
crosslinking of 2 IgE ab on their mast cell receptors