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Appointment sheet

Pick the entries you want to raise. The sheet prints each one on a single page, with its mechanism, mast-cell relationship, cited study types and citations.

It is not a request list. The aim is to arrive with the information a clinician would check anyway, already sourced, so the conversation starts further along.

Every printed entry keeps those facts separate from the conditions for which the treatment is approved or trialled. An approval in another condition is not evidence in this one, and a sheet that blurred the two would be worse than no sheet.

Looking for someone to bring it to? Finding a clinician is on the tests and diagnosis page. That page also explains which tests support the criteria and when those tests need to be drawn.

If a reaction is severe, this page is not the right place to be

Trouble breathing, throat or tongue swelling, faintness, collapse, or a reaction spreading quickly across the body may be anaphylaxis. It is a medical emergency. Emergency services are the right call. Anyone who has an emergency plan and an adrenaline auto-injector should follow that plan rather than this page.

This site carries no dosing and no instructions for using an auto-injector — that belongs with the prescriber who issued it. The epinephrine entry records the mechanism and evidence. The AAAAI work group report supports the diagnostic material on this site.

Choose what to bring

Your selection stays in this browser only. It is never sent anywhere.

Medications — Emergency intervention
Medications — 1. H1 antihistamines
Medications — 2. H2 antihistamines
Medications — 3. Leukotriene receptor antagonists
Medications — 4. Cromolyn
Medications — 5. Ketotifen
Medications — 6. Aspirin
Medications — 7. Oral corticosteroids
Medications — 8. Omalizumab
Medications — Trigger-specific treatment
Medications — Emerging / refractory evidence
Medications — Local-route symptom treatments
Medications — outside the stepwise sequence
Supplements — outside the stepwise sequence

Discussion notes — mast cell activation

Prepared from a patient-facing reference index. Mechanisms, mast-cell relationships and cited study types only; no dosing, and nothing here is a recommendation.

Nothing selected yet. Tick entries on the left and they will appear here, formatted to print on paper a clinician can read quickly.

This is a reference index, not medical advice. It describes published mechanisms of action and records where the evidence for each entry comes from. It contains no dosing information and makes no claims that anything listed works. Decisions about treatment belong with your clinician.

Every entry must clear a stated inclusion bar, and entries carry the date they were last checked. Found something wrong or out of date? That is worth reporting — see corrections.