Abstract

MORALES MENENDEZ, María; FERNANDEZ PEREZ, Raúl; MORALES MENENDEZ, Mariela  and  PEREZ FABELO, Marlene. Behavior of the treatment with antiallergic vaccines in allergic patients. AMC [online]. 2010, vol.14, n.3. ISSN 1025-0255.

Background: Immunotherapy has been reason of controversy and discussion since it began to use. Injections may trigger smaller adverse events and systemic reactions are not very frequent. Objective: to evaluate the behavior of the treatment with antiallergic vaccines in the service of allergology of the university hospital Manuel Ascunce Domenech. Method: a descriptive study in allergic patients attended at the consultation of allergology of the University Hospital Manuel Ascunce Domenech was carried out. The universe was constituted by one-hundred fifty patients assisted in this service in the period of study; the sample was conformed to one-hundred patients that made change of vaccines. The information was stored in a database made by means of the Excel program of the Office XP. Data processing included the calculation of descriptive measures for qualitative variables as the absolute frequencies and percentages. The information processing was carried out by means of the statistical package SPSS version 6.0. Results: adverse reactions were reported in 17% among the ten and eight to forty-two years. The allergenic vaccines that had mite extracts in its composition of the standardized Biocen, were the ones that gave reactions. Local manifestations were wheal, erythema and exacerbation of the disease. Conclusions: it is majority the use of conventional outline up to now. All adverse reactions of vaccines used mites in its composition and fatal systemic reaction did not exist in the study.

Keywords : VACCINATION; EPIDEMIOLOGY DESCRIPTIVE; INMUNOTHERAPY; DESENSITIZATION INMUNOLOGIC; ADULT.

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