Environmental triggers

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Avoidance of known allergenic triggers can improve symptoms, reduce medication use, and decrease BHR. Environmental triggers (e.g., animals) should be avoided in sensitive patients, and those who smoke should be encouraged to stop. 

Increasingly, our world is so toxic that we require additional toxics to protect us from the existing toxics. We need flame retardants to protect us from all the highly flammable plastics in our homes. Consider environmentally triggered diseases like asthma that require pharmaceuticals to ameliorate. The pharmaceutical by-products, in turn, end up in... 

In summary, impairment of all the foregoing mechanisms during a multistep process may be involved in the loss of self-tolerance in patients with SLE (Table 2). Self-reactive anergic lymphocytes may be reactivated when a genetically vulnerable person faces an environmental trigger from viral infection leading to sustained inflammation. The precise mechanism of anti-Ro/SSA, anti-La/SSB, and anti-dsDNA antibodies will be discussed in the following sections. 

There is some evidence that children under five years of age obtain benefit from use of nedocromil sodium or sodium cromoglicate. These agents are used only in prophylaxis cromoglicate is not a bronchodilator and cannot be used to treat acute episodes of asthma. Its action is not well understood but the prophylactic effect appears to be partly due to stabilization of mast cells, which reduces release of histamine and other mediators so that hyperactive bronchial muscle is less responsive to environmental triggers. 

The onset of the disease shows a striking seasonal variation with a high incidence rate in autumn and winter, suggesting a prominent role for environmental trigger factors in the genesis of Type-I diabetes. However,... 

Bipolar disorder is likely caused by genetic factors, environmental triggers, and the dysregulation of neurotransmitters, neurohormones, and secondary messenger systems in the brain. 

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