Article Document Academic Article Information Content Entity Continuant Continuant Journal Article Entity Entity Generically Dependent Continuant 2025-05-10T00:56:52 RDF description of Insect sting allergy - http://repository.healthpartners.com/individual/document-rn18741 1 Animals public Hypersensitivity, Immediate/*etiology/*prevention & control 10.1016/j.mcna.2005.08.006 Insect Bites and Stings/*complications document-rn18741 Medical Clinics of North America 15785 90 Insect sting allergy 2022-02-21T22:48:57.408-06:00 Venoms/adverse effects/immunology *Hymenoptera 26150 <p>Insect sting allergy has served as an excellent model for the allergic process over the past century. In particular, during the last 30 years, a new form of diagnostic testing and treatment with vo m has been one of the great suc-cess stories in the entire field of allergy. VIT reduces the risk of recurrent life-threatening reactions from about 60% to less than 2%. Progress and further questions continue with a search for a definitive diagnostic test that more accurately predicts which patients are at risk for future reactions, and defines which patients can stop VIT and which ones need to continue treatment.<p> Desensitization, Immunologic