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The Lung
Author(s) -
Bousquet Jean
Publication year - 1995
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.1398-9995.1995.tb02722.x
Subject(s) - immunoglobulin e , food allergy , medicine , immunology , food allergens , allergy , mechanism (biology) , antibody , philosophy , epistemology
•A positive food challenge doesn't imply that there is an IgE mediated allergy but implies the patient is intolerant to certain foods. •If specific IgE and/or prick test to a specific food‐stuff is positive, an IgE‐mediated mechanism is likely to be involved but a proportion of patients with IgE to foods do not present any symptom when ingesting the food.