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Article: Low Uptake of Treatment Options for Insect Venom Allergies.

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June 12, 2006
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VIENNA, Austria, June 12 /PRNewswire/ --

- Patients Need Better Information

An insect venom allergy can be fatal. The good news is that that this condition responds well to therapeutic management. Patients who receive causal treatment in the form of specific immunotherapy (SIT) have an almost 100 per cent chance of a cure. "Despite its proven tolerability and efficacy, SIT uptake rates are much too low. It's probably because patients are not well enough informed," concluded Franziska RuE1/2ff, an insect venom allergy expert with the Dermatology Department of Munich University Hospital, in her presentation at the 25th Congress of the European Academy of ... 







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