Ford R M
Aust Fam Physician. 1979 Jan;8(1):10-3.
A suggested basic approach to the diagnosis of allergic diseases, which involves the characteristics of allergic diseases themselves, is presented. Using these characteristics as basic guidelines in investigation, not only should the condition be diagnosed but main cause or causes and triggering factors should be demonstrated in individual patients. Investigational procedures ranging from history, and including simple skin tests and more sophisticated immunological investigations, are briefly analyzed and it is stressed that if a really adequate allergic investigation of all patients with suspect allergic disease is carried out in an effort to demonstrate and subsequently control all causes and triggering factors, then development of chronic disease, sometimes intractible to our standard methods of therapy, could well be prevented in many cases.
本文提出了一种基于过敏性疾病自身特点的过敏性疾病诊断基本方法。以这些特点作为调查的基本指导原则，不仅应诊断病情，还应在个体患者中找出主要病因和触发因素。简要分析了从病史询问到简单皮肤试验以及更复杂的免疫学检查等一系列调查程序，并强调如果对所有疑似过敏性疾病患者进行真正充分的过敏调查，以找出并随后控制所有病因和触发因素，那么在许多情况下，可有效预防有时对我们的标准治疗方法难以治疗的慢性疾病的发生。
