Recognition of Haptenation and Hypersensitivity Disorders, the Importance of Identification

Year: 2013

Resolution Number: 7

Action Taken: Approved

Status:

Author(s): Qazi Azher, MD

Sponsor: Gerald Natzke, DO, and Qazi Azher, MD

On behalf of: Genesee County Delegation

Committee: D (Public Health)

Resolved Section(s):
RESOLVED: That MSMS use its communication vehicles to make physicians aware of the process of haptenation and sensitization and their multiple ramifications; and be it furtherRESOLVED: That MSMS use its communication vehicles to help physicians recognize that one can teach patients methods to avoid exposure to the haptens; and be it furtherRESOLVED: That MSMS use its communication vehicles to help physicians include chemical sensitivity in the differential diagnosis, take a history focused on exposures to toxins and symptoms related to known toxins and testing; and be it furtherRESOLVED: That MSMS disseminate information via its communication vehicles on haptenation in Michigan Medicine and at the Annual Scientific Meeting; and be it furtherRESOLVED: That our AMA use its communication vehicles to make physicians nationally aware of the process of haptenation and sensitization and their multiple ramifications, as well as to help physicians teach patients methods to avoid exposure to the haptens, and to help physicians include chemical sensitivity in the differential diagnosis, take a history focused on exposures to toxins and symptoms related to known toxins and testing.

Fiscal Note: NULL

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