World Allergy Day

 

                                    Nobel Prize In Physiology/Medicine, 1913 

                                         ANAPHYLAXIS  

In 1902, Charles Richet and Paul Portier discovered anaphylaxis, demonstrating that the immune system could produce life-threatening hypersensitivity reactions. This work earned Richet the 1913 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. During the following decades, researchers suspected that an unknown antibody, then called "reagin," 

 

 

 

In 1966, Japanese immunologists Kimishige Ishizaka and Teruko Ishizaka demonstrated that reaginic activity was due to a previously unknown class of immunoglobulin. 

Around the same time, Swedish researchers S. Gunnar O. Johansson and Hans Bennich isolated an unusual myeloma protein from a patient (coded ND) and showed that it represented the same new antibody class. 

 

 

 

1968: IgE Officially Recognised    

In 1968, the World Health Organization officially recognized this fifth class of immunoglobulin and named it Immunoglobulin E (IgE).

 

 

 

IgE And Allergy

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Current Events

 

 World Allergy Day is observed every year on July 8th to raise global awareness about allergic diseases and their prevention. Initiated by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the World Allergy Organization (WAO), it empowers people to understand allergy triggers and seek timely treatment. 

 

 

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