ANN ARBOR--House dust mites are common pests with an unusual evolutionary history. They are tiny, free-living animals that evolved from a parasitic ancestor, which in turn evolved from free-living ...

Approximately half of a group of patients with IgE sensitization to shrimp also were sensitized to house dust mites, and vice versa, according to a letter published in Clinical and Translational ...

Deryn Lee Thompson is affiliated Loreal, Ego Pharmaceuticals and Quality Use of Medicines Alliance having received honorariums for educational talks or advisory work. Deryn has also undertaken ...

Adolescents aged 12 to 17 years with allergic rhinitis induced by house dust mites now can take a sublingual immunotherapy tablet approved by the FDA after review of multiple trials in this age group.

Dust mites are the scourge of allergy sufferers everywhere. They are microscopic insects, not detectable to the human eye, that feed on human and animal skin shedding. They breed prolifically, and ...

A phase 3 study found that the SQ house dust mite sublingual immunotherapy (SLIT) tablet was well tolerated in children aged ...

Researchers studied the effects of sublingual immunotherapy with extract of Dermatophagoides pteronyssinus, a ubiquitous dust mite, administered to patients in drops Treatment with house dust mite ...

1. Calderón MA, Linneberg A, Kleine-Tebbe J, et al. Respiratory allergy caused by house dust mites: What do we really know? J Allergy Clin Immunol. 2015;136(1):1:38-48. 2. Portnoy J, Miller JD, ...

Dusting is one of those household chores it’s easy to skip over, but dust can cause allergies, respiratory problems, and other unwanted complications. Whether you suffer from an obvious allergy or not ...

Dear Readers: One of the more interesting letters we received recently concerned dust mites, which are always a problem but especially during summer months when temperatures and humidity rise. I ...

For the last couple of years, I’ve been dealing with allergies, sneezing mostly at night as I tried to sleep. So I decided to see a doctor. “Wow, you’re very allergic to dust mites,” he said after the ...

House dust mites are common pests with an unusual evolutionary history. They are tiny, free-living animals that evolved from a parasitic ancestor, which in turn evolved from free-living organisms ...