Publications by authors named "Susanna Salmivesi"

Background: Sensitization to Ara h 2 has been proposed as a promising biological marker for the severity of peanut allergy and may reduce the need for oral food challenges. This study aimed to evaluate whether peanut oral food challenge is still a useful diagnostic tool for children with suspected peanut allergy and an elevated level of Ara h 2-specific IgE. Additionally, we assessed whether well-controlled asthma is an additional risk for severe reactions.

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Aim: This study evaluated whether 15 allergy, immunology or inflammatory markers predicted the long-term use of cows' milk or milk products seven years after the start of oral immunotherapy (OIT) for cows' milk allergy in children.

Methods: The following laboratory parameters were measured before the OIT at Tampere University Hospital, Finland, and after the six-month escalation phase: serum total immunoglobulin (Ig) E, milk-specific IgG and IgG4, eosinophil cationic protein, eosinophil-derived neurotoxin, interleukins 4, 5, 6, 10 and 12p70 and serum adipokines adiponectin, adipsin, leptin and resistin. Follow-up data from a seven-year phone questionnaire in 2015 were available for 24 children: 14 successful and 10 unsuccessful milk users.

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Aim: Oral immunotherapy (OIT) is a promising but still experimental method to treat children with cow's milk (CM) allergy (CMA). We evaluated changes in allergic, immunological and inflammatory parameters, which happened during the six-month OIT for CMA.

Methods: We treated 28 school-aged children with CMA using OIT with a double-blind placebo-controlled design.

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Aim: This was a follow-up of 28 schoolchildren with cows' milk allergy (CMA) who attended a randomised double-blind placebo-controlled oral immunotherapy (OIT) study. In the original study, 26 (92.9%) completed the six-month escalation phase, and 25 (89.

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Aim: The Finnish national allergy programme was introduced in 2008 to decrease the burden of allergy in the population. This study, carried out in 2013, evaluated the prevalence of parent-reported food allergies, treated with an avoidance diet until early school age, and discussed the rates in relation to those found in an identical study in 2009.

Methods: School health nurses used a structured questionnaire to interview the parents of 1653 children aged of six or seven in the first year of elementary school.

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Aims:   To study the efficacy of oral immunotherapy (OIT) in schoolchildren with cow's milk (CM) allergy (CMA).

Methods:   Twenty-eight children aged 6-14 years with CMA documented by oral challenge were enrolled into a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled OIT study. In the active treatment, CM protein amount was increased during 23 weeks from 0.

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Human papillomaviruses (HPVs, most notably types 16 and 18) cause cervical carcinoma, the second most common cancer among women. Vaccination of adolescents against HPV16/18 might prevent large proportion of cervical and other anogenital cancers. However, because of ethical reasons this cannot be proven by clinical studies.

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