Allergies affect many different and interconnected systems within a person's body, according to the American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology.
ANI | Updated: Jan 17, 2021 23:38 IST
Washington [US], January 17 (ANI): A new research has indicated that itching often doesn t respond to antihistamines because the itch signals are being carried to the brain along a previously unrecognized pathway that current drugs don t target.
New research from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis indicates that allergens in the environment often are to blame for episodes of acute itch in eczema patients.
The new findings, published in the journal Cell, point to a possible new target and strategy to help eczema patients cope with those episodes of acute and severe itch. Years ago, we used to think that itch and pain were carried along the same subway lines in the nerves to the brain, but it turned out they weren t, and these new findings show there s another pathway entirely that s causing these episodes of acute itching in eczema patients, said principal investigator Brian S. Kim, M