Basics of Skin Allergy and Newest Testing Methods

Who Should Attend
Professionals in the skin care/ skin exposure industry that are interested in expanding their knowledge about skin allergy and optional testing methods:

  • Cosmetics and Personal care 
  • Pharmaceutics 
  • Occupational health
  • Agriculture 
  • Hospitals and facilities 
  • Regulatory organization

Description
The vast usage of products in Western lifestyle brought about convenience and may have allowed society to benefit from fast and effective perceived results. However, it is thought that the exposure to large number chemically complicated formulations also challenged the human immune system. The Western Society has shown to have increased prevalence of allergic chronic disorders and in early ages. This trend did not skip skin allergy. Nevertheless, the current testing methods available are far from being inclusive and present limitations and ethical issues.

This 90 minute accredited training will describe the nature of skin allergic reactions, limitations of current methods and future scientific promise.

Review of Learning Objectives
Module 1:
  • What is a skin allergic reaction?
  • Where in the skin it occurs?
  • What’s between allergy and inflammation
  • Type 1 vs. type 4 allergy
  • When allergy becomes chronic?
  • When allergy can be life threatening?

Module 2:
  • Current allergy testing methodologies
  • Human RIPT- technical limitations and ethical
    considerations
  • Animal testing-advantages and limitations
  • Current available in vitro methodologies

Module 3:
  • Mast cells
    – Characteristics, roles and recent understandings of 
       function
    – Use of mast cells in cultures
    – Why mast cell co-cultures are a good way to test for skin 
       type 1 allergic reaction
Summary
Question and Answer Session