I. Specific diagnostics.
The preparation is used for setting up skin tests (scarification, prik-test and intradermally). Specific diagnostics, as a rule, are carried out simultaneously with other pollen allergens. During one procedure, up to 15 samples with different pollen allergens are allowed, except for allergens of plant species included in the mixt-allergen. For 2-3 days before the setting of skin tests, antihistamines should be canceled.With doubtful results of skin tests, they can be repeated two days after the local reaction to the previous samples subsided. In case of a positive result, skin tests with pollen allergens can be repeated no more than once a month.
A patient with an increased sensitivity to at least one of the allergens that make up the mixst-allergen from pollen of weeds and sunflower, an immediate-type reaction of a kind appears (positive result). The question of the necessity of setting skin tests with individual monoallergens, which are part of the mixt-allergen, is decided by the allergist doctor.
The skin test is performed with a mixt-allergen containing 10,000 PNU / ml. In patients with a high degree of sensitization, it is possible to apply the drug at a concentration of 5000 PNU / ml. If there is no reaction to the skin test at a concentration of 10,000 PNU / ml, it is switched to its intradermal administration at a dose of 0.02 ml at a concentration of 1000 PNU / ml. The preparation is diluted with a diluting liquid.
Setting skarification skin tests, prik-tests.
Scarification skin tests, prik-tests put on the inner surface of the forearm or, if necessary, on the skin of the back.
Simultaneously with the mixt-allergen, skin tests with test-control fluid and with 0.01% histamine solution are prepared, which is prepared by diluting 0.1% of histamine dihydrochloride solution (1 part) of sodium chloride with a solution of 0.9% (9 parts), positive reaction to which no less than "+" indicates the presence of sufficient reactivity of the skin. The diluted solution of histamine is suitable for 6 hours from the moment of preparation.
The metal cap of vials (with mixed-allergen, test-control liquid) is wiped with alcohol. Remove the central cap of the cap using a sterile forceps, and pierce the rubber stopper, pretreated with 70% ethyl alcohol, with a sterile needle.
The skin of the inner surface of the forearm is wiped with 70% ethyl alcohol and allowed to dry. A drop of the test mix-allergen, a drop of test-control fluid and a drop of 0.01% histamine solution at a distance (30 ± 10) mm from each other are applied to the disinfected skin with a sterile syringe. Mixt-allergen, typed in a syringe, can not be poured back into the vial.
When setting skarifikatsionnyh skin tests through drops of applied solutions with sterile scarifiers or injection needles, two parallel scratches with a length of 5 mm are applied.
When prik-tests are applied through droplets of applied solutions with sterile injecting needles, shortened or with the depth stop of the prick or needles for prik-test (lancets), the skin is injected to a depth of 1.0-1.5 mm. When using injection needles, the skin is pierced at an angle of 45 ° so that blood does not protrude; then the needle is removed, slightly lifting the skin.
After 15-20 minutes, sterile cotton swabs "drip" the drops of applied solutions at the site of scratches or puncture of the skin (a cotton swab should be separate for each drop of applied solutions) and take into account the skin reaction.
Injection of intradermal samples.
Intradermal tests are set in cases where the scarification skin test gives a negative reaction, and a history of susceptibility to susceptibility to plant pollen included in the mix allergen and / or if allergometric titration is necessary before the initiation of specific immunotherapy.
Intradermal tests are performed on the inner surface of the forearm. The skin is pulled downward by moving the finger downwards, the needle is inserted at an angle of 15 ° to the surface of the skin, and it must be ensured that the needle hole is completely hidden in the epidermis, the needle must be thin with a short point.
Sterile, individual for mixed-allergen and test-control fluid, marked with syringes with a scale of 0.02 ml, strictly intracutaneously injected 0.02 ml of mixed-allergen and test-control fluid, a sample with 0.01% histamine is put by the method of scarification . Mixt-allergen, typed in a syringe, can not be poured back into the vial.
Evaluation of diagnostic skin tests.
The local skin reaction during the formulation of scarifying skin tests, prik-tests are taken into account after 15-20 minutes, intradermal tests - after 20 minutes in the absence of reaction to the test control fluid and in the presence of a positive sample for histamine (not less than "+") (Table. 1).
Table 1
Scheme of accounting for scarification skin tests, prik-tests
Evaluation of reaction | Degree of severity of reaction * | The size and nature of the reaction |
Negative | | Absence of blister (papules), hyperemia with dimensions both in control with test-control fluid |
Doubtful | + | Absence of blister (papules), hyperemia with sizes exceeding those in control with test-control fluid |
Positive | + | Wheal (papule) 2-3 mm, only noticeable when the skin stretching is congestion (for prick tests); Blister (papule) 3-5 mm, visible only when stretching the skin, hyperemia (for prik-tests) |
Positive | ++ | Blister (papule) 4-5 mm, hyperemia (for scarification tests); Blister (papule) 5-10 mm, hyperemia (for prik-tests) |
Positive | +++ | Blister (papule) 6-10 mm, hyperemia or blister (papule) 6-10 mm with pseudopodia, hyperemia (for scarification tests); Blister (papule) 10-15 mm, hyperemia (for prik-tests) |
Positive | ++++ | Blister (papule) more than 10 mm, hyperemia or blister (papule) more than 10 mm with pseudopodia, hyperemia (for scarification tests); Blister (papule) more than 15 mm with pseudopodia, hyperemia (for prik-tests) |
Negative | - | Dimensions are the same as in the control |
Doubtful | + | At the test site, the blister dissolves more slowly than in the control |
Positive | + | Blister (papule) 4-7 mm in diameter, surrounded by hyperemia |
Positive | -n- | Blister (papule) 8-14 mm in diameter, surrounded by hyperemia |
Positive | +++ | Blister (papule) 15-20 mm in diameter with pseudopodia, surrounded by hyperemia |
Positive | -H- + 4- | Blister (papule) more than 20 mm in diameter with pseudopodia and (or) erythema around (additional blisters around the periphery of pink or bright red) |
Note:
* Degree of severity of reaction:
- Negative;
+ Doubtful;
+ Weakly positive;
++ Positive;
+++ Sharply positive;
++++ Very sharply positive.
II. Specific immunotherapy.
Specific immunotherapy is carried out in those cases when it is impossible to exclude the contact of the sensitized patient with the mixt-allergen.
The mixed-allergen immunotherapy is administered to patients who have been sensitized to all types of pollen that is part of the complex preparation.
Immunotherapy starts with a dose 10 times lower than the one that caused a minimal positive reaction with intradermal administration.
Mixt-allergen with specific immunotherapy is administered subcutaneously.
For the correct preparation and use of dilutions of the mixt-allergen with the observance of asepsis, the responsibility is borne by the allergist doctor.
The dilutions of the drug, the volume administered (dose) and the recommended scheme of application are given in Table. 2.
table 2An approximate scheme of specific immunotherapy for pollinosis
Breeding the allergen | Dose (ml) | Notes |
1 | 2 | 3 |
10-5 1:100000 0,1 PNU/ ml | 0,1 0,2 0,4 0,8 | Specific immunotherapy begin no later than after the diagnosis of atopic disease, than for 3-4 months.before flowering and complete later than 1.5 months. before the flowering of plants. Injections are made strictly subcutaneously in the lower region third of the shoulder. The first injections (with the dilution of the mixt- allergen 10-5, 10-4, 10-3) are done daily or through day, subsequent injections (dilutions 10-2, 10-1) - from an interval of 7-10 days. The dose of mixt-allergen is 0.9-1.0 ml in breeding 10-1 repeat at intervals of 5-7 days until the beginning of flowering plants. Term of use of a mixt- allergen after its dilution -1 month. After each injection of the patient's mixed-allergen observe in the office for at least 60 minutes. Doctor notes reaction of the skin at the site of injection of the mixt-allergen and general condition of the patient. Contraindication for increasing the dose is a local reaction in the form of an infiltrate larger than 25 mm, which occurred during the day at the injection site, general reaction of the body, exacerbation of the underlying disease. In these cases, the dose is reduced, intervals between injections are extended until good tolerance will be established. |
10-4 1:10000 1,0 PNU/ ml | 0,1 0,2 0,4 0,8 |
10-3 1:1000 10 PNU/ ml | 0,1 0,2 0,4 0,8 |
10-2 1:100 100 PNU/ ml | 0,1 0,2 0,3 0,4 0,5 0,6 0,7 0,8 0,9 1,0 |
10-1 1:10 1000 PNU/ ml | 0,1 0,2 0,3 0,4 0,5 0,6 0,7 0,8 0,9 1,0 |