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Food Hypersensitivity in Patients with Pollen Allergy
Author(s) -
Eriksson Nils E.,
Formgren Hans,
Sveius Eivor
Publication year - 1982
Publication title -
allergy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.363
H-Index - 173
eISSN - 1398-9995
pISSN - 0105-4538
DOI - 10.1111/j.1398-9995.1982.tb02323.x
Subject(s) - pollen , allergy , oral allergy syndrome , medicine , food hypersensitivity , incidence (geometry) , food allergy , immunology , dermatology , botany , biology , physics , optics
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 be 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.