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- Title
The value of clinical observation: sleuthing for allergies on the front lines.
- Authors
Abrams, Elissa M.; Becker, Allan
- Abstract
Only 5 percent of the Jones and Hunter study were sensitive to only one food; 28 percent to between two and five foods, 35 percent to between six and ten foods, 17 percent to between eleven and twenty, and 15 percent to more than twenty foods. While it is clear that many of the reactions to foods which he described in the book are allergies to foods, some like coeliac disease are immune responses and others like withdrawal headaches (such as from caffeine) are food intolerances, but not classic IgE-driven allergy. It is often easy to sort out which foods because in most instances symptoms clear as soon as the patient avoids all foods. Finding the offending food in a person with a food allergy or a food intolerance is often difficult and time-consuming, particularly when an individual is skin-test negative to the offending food.
- Subjects
MILK allergy; IRRITABLE colon; ALLERGIES; INFLAMMATORY bowel diseases; FOOD allergy
- Publication
Allergy, Asthma & Clinical Immunology, 2022, Vol 18, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
1710-1484
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1186/s13223-022-00716-9