Healthway offers UniCAP system for allergy

The prevalence and growing incidence of allergic diseases like rhinitis, sinusitis, dermatitis, asthma and foot allergy affect almost 10 percent of our entire population today.

This reflects increased exposures and enhanced responses to allergens which adversely affect one’s quality of life. Not only does an allergy attack disrupts routinary tasks and lifestyles, it also disallocates an individual’s budget and income.

Allergy is the body’s abnormal response to normally harmless substances. When exposed to an allergens, the body products disease-fighting antibodies called immunoglobulin E or IgE.

The resulting antibody (immunoglobulin E) reacts with the harmless substance, or allergen, producing histamine and other inflammatory substances during the process.

Itching, sneezing, coughing, wheezing, watery eyes, inflammation and fatigue are symptoms of allergic reactions which are always annoying, frequently debilitating, and in some cases, even life-threatening.

However, allergic diseases can be regularly controlled and its symptoms prevented or minimized through proper knowledge and diagnosis.

Healthway Medical Clinics offer assistance to allergic persons through their allergy diagnosis technology, the UniCAP system. Through the UniCAP system, a single blood sample is used to test the various allergens at the same time, thus ensuring quick yet accurate diagnosis of allergy. The three major types of allergy tests included in the UniCAP system are the total IgE test, Phadiatop and specific IgE test.

Healthway offers the UniCAP allergy system in all of its seven clinics at Ayala Avenue, Greenbelt, Binondo, SM City, Alabang Town Center, Festival Mall and Laguna Technopark.

Healthway is a chain of budget-friendly outpatient clinics that house over 400 highly competent family medicine physicians, specialists and sub-specialists. For more details, call 893-7910, 893-7920 or 893-7940.