Food Hypersensitivity in Patients with Pollen Allergy.

Eriksson, Nils E.; Formgren, Hans; Svenonius, Eivor

Six hundred patients with pollen allergy answered a questionnaire about food hypersensitivity. Hypersensitivity to various nuts, fruits and roots was reported more often by patients with birch pollen allergy (70%) than by patients without birch pollen allergy (19%). The stronger the skin test reaction to birch pollen, the higher was the incidence of food hypersensitivity. A negative correlation was found between grass pollen allergy and food hypersensitivity. In the diagnosis of springtime hayfever, the presence of hypersensitivity to nuts, fruits and roots supports a diagnosis of birch pollen allergy.

ALLERGIES; BIRCH; LECTINS; STONE fruit; POLLEN; IMMUNOLOGIC diseases

Allergy, 1982, Vol 37, Issue 6, p437

0105-4538

Academic Journal

10.1111/j.1398-9995.1982.tb02323.x