[Incidence of adverse reactions to immunotherapy in allergic patients at Puebla University Hospital]. / Incidencia de reacciones adversas a la inmunoterapia en pacientes alérgicos del Hospital Universitario de Puebla.

MATERIAL AND METHOD: In order to know adverse reaction incidence to, immunotherapy, it realized a longitudinal, prospective and descriptive study in patients of outward consultation of Allergy Immunology Clinic Service of Hospital Universitario de Puebla in a period of 10 months. It determined age, sex, diagnostic, reaction adverse kind and presentation time of them. Initial immunotherapy dose was 0.05 ml administered subcutaneously with treatment antigens 1:100 weight/volume without premedication. It included 170 patients with average age of 22.6 years (SID 15.4), 56.5% female sex and 43.5% male. RESULTS: Most frequent pathologics were asthma and rhinitis. Adverse reactions incidence at specific immunotherapy were 2.4%, all of them were of immediate and local kind. CONCLUSION: These results are influence by the concentration and dose of antigens utilized and may differ of another studies.

[Prevalence of latex hypersensitivity among medical personnel]. / Prevalencia de hipersensibilidad al látex en personal médico.

In order to determine the latex hypersensitivity prevalence in medical residents from Hospital Universitario de Puebla, it was carried out a transversal, observational and descriptive study including the medical staff of all specialties. The epicutancous test was effectuated with 1:20 latex antigen dilution. It was studied a total of 90 medical residents, 68.9% were males and 31.1% females. The mean age was 30.6 years (SD 3.8). The 50% were from clinical specialties and 50% else were from surgical. The global latex hypersensitivity prevalence was 8%. It will be convenient to carry out a follow up of studied cohort to establish if continual exposition, years later, will determine skin reactivity to latex in professional practice.