Asian Hospital now has ImmunoCAP system

MANILA, Philippines - The Asian Hospital and Medical Center (AHMC), recognized for its leading innovation and patient-centered healthcare services, once again showed its commitment of giving innovative healthcare by providing the latest state-of-the-art technology in allergy diagnosis — the ImmunoCAP system.

Asian Hospital believes that the increasing allergy problem in the Philippines should be addressed more adequately through modern allergy testing machines that can provide a fast and automated result.

As an addition to its wide array of world-class medical facilities and services, the hospital recently installed its ImmunoCAP system for allergy, asthma and autoimmune disorders. 

Affecting one person in four, allergy is one of the most widespread and costly health problems in the world. Without proper diagnosis and management, the patient’s condition may deteriorate overtime.

For effective treatment, the physician must make sure whether or not a patient’s symptoms are really the result of allergy, as opposed to other forms of hypersensitivity.

The most effective treatment for allergy is to avoid the offending allergens. Avoidance also minimizes the use of drugs, and side effects associated with these drugs.

The ImmunoCAP system provides a very convenient way to diagnose allergy, asthma and autoimmune disorders.

ImmunoCAP system is a modern laboratory instrument that can deliver fast, precise, accurate (WHO-standardized) and consistent test results, providing physicians with valuable clinical information to help them diagnose and treat patients with allergy.

With this new allergy solution, allergies consulted in the clinic can be recognized early and identified, and complications such as severe anaphylactic reactions and progression to asthma could be prevented.

Now, Asian Hospital can help patients who have allergy problems not only in determining if they have allergy or not, but in identifying the substances (allergens) to which they are allergic to.

Special cases that need a more accurate and standardized result include patients who already took antihistamines or steroids, and those with extensive skin lesions in whom skin tests could not be done.

Ideal patients for the ImmunoCAP system also include patients who have oversensitive skin; those who have anaphylactic reactions to drugs; older patients with wrinkled skin; and uncooperative patients like children.

The newly added high-end medical machine at the Asian Hospital is both helpful to general practitioners and allergy specialists for early diagnosis and treatment of allergy, both in children and adults.

With a simple blood test, the ImmunoCAP system helps doctors determine if their patients have allergy or not. It is now recognized by many scientists and allergy experts worldwide as the gold standard in the diagnosis of allergy.

A recent study published in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology demonstrated that ImmunoCAP is the standard for accuracy and reliability for quantitative IgE testing in allergy.