Encasing bedding in covers made of microfine fibers reduces exposure to house mite allergens and improves disease management in adult atopic asthmatics

Allergy, Asthma and Clinical Immunology

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Tsurikisawa, Naomi ^a   Saito, Akemi ^a   Oshikata, Chiyako ^a   Nakazawa, Takuya ^a   Yasueda, Hiroshi ^a   Akiyama, Kazuo ^a  

^a SAGAMIHARA NATIONAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Adult intervention; Allergen; Atopic asthma; Bed cover; Dermatophagoides; Group 1 mite antigen

Indexed keywords

ADHESIVE AGENT; BECLOMETASONE DIPROPIONATE; BETA 2 ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; CHLOROFLUOROCARBON; HOUSE DUST ALLERGEN; MUSCARINIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; NITRIC OXIDE; THEOPHYLLINE;

ADULT; ALLERGIC ASTHMA; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; BED; CLEANING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUNSELING; DERMATOPHAGOIDES; DISEASE SEVERITY; DUST EXPOSURE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EOSINOPHIL COUNT; EXHALATION; FEMALE; FIBER; HUMAN; MALE; PEAK EXPIRATORY FLOW; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL;

EID: 84887699636     PISSN: 17101484     EISSN: 17101492     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1710-1492-9-44     Document Type: Article

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