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December 11, 2010, 8:40 pm

Lanka Hospitals has started a comprehensive allergy clinic which is the first of its kind in a private hospital in Sri Lanka. The mission of the out allergy clinic is to offer a personalized and comprehensive service to diagnose allergies. Common allergies managed at this clinic would include allergic conjunctivitis, eye allergies, eczema and urticaria and skin allergy. a team of consultants which would comprise of skin specialists, ENT surgeons, chest physicians, pediatricians and allergy specialists would serve a resource consultant to this clinic. The consultations would involve a thorough allergy and personal medical history discussion followed by a physical examination. This would be followed by allergy diagnostic tests such as skin scratch tests and allergy blood tests, a news release said.

Allergy management aim would be to identify the causative agent (the allergen) and then to remove it from the affected person’s environment. if avoidance measures cannot be implemented the sufferer may need to use preventive and reliever allergy medication, it said.

Lanka Hospitals would be the first private hospital to offer skin allergy tests to patients of Sri Lanka who had to travel abroad to do the test. Although not available to Sri Lankan patients Skin Prick Testing (SPT) is one of the oldest and safest allergy tests available and is the most sensitive allergy test available worldwide and was first performed by Dr. Charles Blackley who was a Manchester GP to indentify grass pollen as the cause for hay fever way back in 1865. It tests for specific immunoglobulin E (IgE) antibodies to environmental allergens such as house dust mine, pollen, cat and dog dander and many more allergens and also be used to test for food, insect venom and drug allergy.

Consultant Pediatricians Dr. Ajith Amarasinghe who would conduct skin prick testing at Lanka Hospitals was trained by International Asthma Services, Denver, USA and the Christian Medical College, Vellor, India.

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