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Case Study 3
Disorders of the Immune Response
Ahmed has worked as a phlebotomist in the local hospital for the last 7 years. Last year, he began to complain of watery, nasal congestion and wheezing whenever he went to work. He suspected he was allergic to something at the hospital because his symptoms abated when he was at home over the weekends. One day he arrived at work for the morning shift and put on his gloves. Within minutes, he went into severe respiratory distress requiring treatment in the emergency ward. It was determined at that time his allergic response was due to latex exposure.
Ahmed experienced a type I, IgE-mediated hypersensitivity response. How can this be determined by his signs and symptoms? How might another type of latex hypersensitivity reaction present?
How do T2H cells, mast cells, and eosinophils function to produce the signs and symptoms typical of a type I hypersensitivity disorder?
How is it that someone who does not come into direct contact with latex can still have a hypersensitivity response to the material? What do food allergies have to do with latex allergies?
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Disorders of the Immune Response
Type 1 hypersensitive response is a reaction displayed by the body of a person after it is exposed to some specific type of antigen referred to an allergen (Biedermann et al., 2000). Type I hypersensitive response can also be defined to as an allergic reaction that happens to somebody when is exposed things which the body does not comply with them. This reaction may result when a person is exposed to strong scents like those of perfumes, ingestion of some foods or injection.
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