Open AccessAnaphylactic reaction due to razor shell
Author(s) -
Cardona Victoria,
Soto Lorena,
Labrador Moisés,
Luengo Olga
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
clinical and translational allergy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.979
H-Index - 37
ISSN - 2045-7022
DOI - 10.1186/2045-7022-1-s1-p57
Subject(s) - medicine , shell (structure) , anaphylactic reactions , allergy , anaphylaxis , immunology , engineering , civil engineering
Background a 36-year-old woman, with a history of childhood asthma allergic to house dust mites, noticed one year prior to her arrival at our unit an episode of generalized itching, dyspnea, severe rhinoconjunctivitis and abdominal pain after eating rice with razor shell. After that, she had tolerated rice alone. Razor shell (Ensis ensis) is a common mollusc, which has an elongated fragile and narrow shell shaped like a cut-throat razor.