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Presentation of the allergyvigilance network The number of allergic diseases is constantly increasing. The risk of severe accidents is evident. Their frequency remains yet unknown and epidemiological evaluations seem necessary. The concept of allergyvigilance takes into account not only food, but also medecines and any kinds of new allergens. The allergists’place seems quite essential, as well to give precisions on epidemiological datas as to survey the allergic risk of food or medecines recently put on the market. The network gathers liberal and hospital allergists. The cooptation only depends on the members’voluntary service. The communication is set up by e-mails. Some members are connected by fax. To become a member, you only have to make the request at the following e-mail address : s.barrat@chu-nancy.fr. The fax is the following one : 03 83 85 28 64. At january 1st, 2008, the network includes 409 members. The coordinating center is the : Department
of Medecine Interne, Immunologie Clinique et Allergologie
Aims
of the allergy-vigilance network : The
first aim is the declaration, at any time, of lethal or pre-lethal
cases of allergy : that concerns cases whose life has been
maintained only by intensive care. The
second objective aims to get precise data on the prevalence
of allergy cases in both paediatric and adult populations,
these cases of allergy being either severe, ordinary or provoked
by a specific kind of food. Precise data may also be looked
for in clinical descriptions either unproperly known or difficult
to identify till now. The
third objective aims to permanently evaluate the allergic risk
of new kinds of food. It will therefore be reliant on information
given above by the Agence Française de Sécurité Sanitaire
des Aliments. This evaluation will profit of the observation
of the frequency of eating these kinds of food and the screening
of allergic accidents related to these new kinds of food. It
will largely contribute to knowledge by a systematic search
of cross-sensitization between the new ingredient and environnemtal
vegetable and animal allergens. Details
of running : After
treating all the results, they will be communicated by e-mail
or by fax to the network members. The data will be edited in
Alim’Inter, and later on they will be available on line. For
further information, contact : Pr D.A. Moneret-Vautrin, coordinator
of the network, Service de Médecine Interne, Immunologie
Clinique et Allergologie, Hôpital Central, Avenue du
Maréchal de Lattre de Tassigny, 54035 NANCY Cedex,
France. Data from the Allergy Vigilance Network : 139 cases of severe food anaphylaxis registered in 2007 |
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