recall at baseline and at 3-month intervals for a period of 12 months. No information regarding food allergy diagnoses or reactions was obtained. Skin-prick testing to 13 environmental allergens was performed at enrollment in the National Cooperative Inner City-Asthma Study. The random serum samples were evaluated for specific immunoglobulin E (IgE) (UniCap System) to egg, milk, soy, peanut, wh...

BACKGROUND Exposure to airborne wheat allergen is a well-known cause of bakers' allergy and asthma. Airborne wheat allergen can be measured by enzyme immunoassays (EIAs) in extracts of inhalable dust samples, but only limited knowledge is available on the size distribution of wheat allergen-carrying particles. Recently, a new sampling medium, porous polyurethane foam, has been introduced for th...

Food allergy can appear at any age but true allergies to food are more common in infants and young children. Food allergies are the earliest manifestation of atopy (the tendency to develop allergy) in infants and children. A limited number of foods are responsible for the vast majority of food induced allergic reactions. In children the main foods are cow milk, egg, peanut, fish, tree nuts, whe...

Wheat products make a substantial contribution to the dietary intake of many people worldwide. Despite the many beneficial aspects of consuming wheat products, it is also responsible for several diseases such as celiac disease (CD), wheat allergy, and nonceliac gluten sensitivity (NCGS). CD and irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) patients have similar gastrointestinal symptoms, which can result in C...

conclusions the characteristic features of ige-mediated food allergy are abrupt onset of clinical symptoms, which may result in a life-threatening events, and positive results of the majority of the paraclinical tests that mainly trace the specific ige to foods. moreover, non–ige-mediated food allergies present as chronic diseases and due to lack of proper diagnostic tests the similarity of the...

Food-dependent exercise-induced anaphylaxis (FDEIA) is a special form of food allergy where a food-intake alone does not induce any symptoms. However, allergic symptoms are elicited when triggering factors such as exercise or aspirin-intake are added after ingestion of the causative food. The most frequent causative foodstuff in Japan is wheat. The triggering factors, both exercise and aspirin-...