Patent ID: 8010378

Claim:
A method wherein a computer processor is used for recording and analyzing syndromes of allergic diseases and their causes and for establishing appropriate therapy proposals comprising a) preparing at least one set of anamnesis questions, wherein the anamnesis questions include questions relating to the time or cause of the occurrence or a combination thereof, the severity of symptoms of an allergic disease and the environmental exposure of a patient, and storing this set in a data memory in a tangible computer-readable media, b) preparing a set of data relating to the causes of allergic diseases, including a listing of allergens, and storing this set in a data memory in a tangible computer-readable media, wherein the data is continuously revised and extended, c) providing a computer program which selects and presents anamnesis questions according to a predetermined set of rules, d) recording the answers to the anamnesis questions in a tangible computer-readable media, wherein within the framework of the anamnesis questions preliminary information is recorded which includes at least the age and gender of a patient and optionally one or more principal allergic symptoms, affected organs or other diagnosed illnesses or a combination thereof, and wherein the answers are at least partly predetermined in discrete selection steps, e) awarding point values to at least some of the answers to anamnesis questions, f) adding or multiplying together the point values for specific answers or groups of answers, thereby creating total point values for a group of answers or the entire anamnesis or a combination thereof, and storing the total point values in a data memory in a tangible computer readable media, g) creating a set of possible diagnoses using the criterion of whether the total point values for specific groups of answers or the entire anamnesis or a combination thereof exceed a predeterminable threshold value and preparing a proposal for the allergens to be tested to further narrow down the diagnosis, h) preparing one or more diagnosis proposals, i) preparing one or more therapy proposals, wherein steps e) to i) proceed automatically under the control of an interactive computer program, which outputs or displays the questions, diagnoses or proposals or a combination thereof, j) preparing test proposals to further narrow the diagnosis proposals and therapy proposals, k) providing a storage device in which all the data recorded from patients is supplied in anonymized form, and l) selecting comparable anamneses from the data recorded from patients based on the answers to the anamnesis questions.