Johannes Ring

2005

Allergy is “in,” and has been for some years now. The term “allergy” is no longer a foreign word. In spite of this, allergies are still not adequately appreciated either by the general population or by the physicians’ community. On the one hand, allergy is like a “fashionable disease” and any disturbance of well-being is regarded as allergy; on the other hand, very severe allergic conditions remain neglected, being left undiagnosed and untreated.