Overview of Allergy
Allergic disorders are wide-ranging and cross the organ-based disciplines. Allergists therefore require expertise specific to allergy and knowledge of areas of a number of other specialties, particularly respiratory medicine, dermatology, ENT and paediatrics. Allergic disease varies from mild to life-threatening. There has been a doubling in prevalence of the commoner allergic disorders, asthma, eczema and rhinitis in the last two to three decades. Superimposed on this there has been a rapid rise in serious allergic disease.
