Elimination of participants in the allergy mechanism: elimination of homeostasis mechanisms? New approaches to the treatment of allergies

The participation of an allergic reaction and its main constituent elements (IgE, mast cells/basophils, and eosinophils) in maintaining various types of homeostatic function is becoming increasingly obvious. This is illustrated by the example of such evolutionary acquisitions as antiparasitic and antitumor types of resistance of the organism of highly organized animal species. All three participants in the allergic reaction are involved in the preservation of the mechanisms of these forms of homeostasis, from which follows the frequently expressed fear that prolonged maintenance of the blockade of the activity of these participants. Even more so, their elimination may be accompanied by undesirable consequences in the form of suppression of specific homeostasis mechanisms, which should be taken into account when introducing into clinical practice of new groups of antiallergic drugs focused on long-term and even lifelong use.

The appeal to the development and use of antiallergic agents that eliminate the participants in the allergic response, acquired in the course of evolution and performing homeostatic functions, rather stems from the hopelessness of the situation in the treatment of patients with a severe course of the disease who are resistant to other methods of antiallergic therapy. Understanding and acceptance of such a concept in the scientific community can serve as an impetus for the improvement of existing and the creation of fundamentally new and strategically justified methods of preventing not the very possibility but the need for the development of an allergic response. Today, such methods are the restoration of the usefulness of barrier systems, allergen-specific immunotherapy, and use of natural methods to limit, stop, and reverse development (resolution) of an allergic reaction.