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Most Patients With Vaccine Allergy May Be Safely Vaccinated
The guidelines provide general and vaccine-specific recommendations for skin testing to vaccines and components, serum-specific immunoglobulin E (IgE) in vitro antibody testing, serologic testing for protective antibody responses to vaccines, vaccine administration, and avoidance. If this practice parameter is implemented, most patients who avoid vaccination because of allergy concerns will be able to be vaccinated appropriately.
Of approximately 235 million doses of vaccines given annually in the United States, only 1 dose per million causes anaphylaxis. Furthermore, death caused by vaccine-induced anaphylaxis is extremely uncommon.
"Persons with a history of allergy to egg or a past reaction to an influenza vaccine may still be able to receive the H1N1 vaccine or the seasonal flu vaccine safely," said co-chief editor James T. Li, MD, Mayo Clinic professor of medicine and chair, Division of Allergy and Immunology. "I believe that anyone with this concern should check with their doctor and consult with an allergist."
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# IgE-mediated reactions to vaccines are more often caused by vaccine components, such as gelatin or egg protein, vs the immunizing agent itself. Gelatin is commonly used in MMR and varicella vaccines. MMR vaccine contains no significant amount of egg protein, but influenza and yellow fever vaccines have higher concentrations of egg protein. The influenza vaccine has been safely administered to patients with known egg allergy by giving 10% of the dose, followed by the rest of the dose 30 minutes later.
# Patients with an anaphylactic reaction after vaccination should first undergo allergy testing against the vaccine by use of the prick method. If this prick test result is negative, intradermal testing with a 1:100 vaccine dilution should be performed. Intradermal testing can also include suspected vaccine component allergens.
# If the result of the intradermal test with the vaccine is negative, the likelihood of an IgE-mediated reaction is very low, and the patient may resume routine vaccination. However, as a precaution, the patient should be kept under observation for at least 30 minutes, with epinephrine and other emergency treatment available.
http://cme.medscape.com/viewarticle/710958 
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