Open AccessFood allergy is an important diseases associated to fibromyalgia
Author(s) -
Puccio FA,
Rojas R,
Mosquera I,
Hernandez A,
Mosquera R,
Jaua L,
Lizarrale M,
Cifarrelli D,
Reyes R
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
clinical and translational allergy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.979
H-Index - 37
ISSN - 2045-7022
DOI - 10.1186/2045-7022-3-s3-p120
Subject(s) - medicine , fibromyalgia , allergy , food allergy , food hypersensitivity , immunology , physical therapy
Background It has been proposed that allergy may be considered as one of the common associated conditions, like irritable bowel syndrome or migraine in fibromyalgia. Fibromyalgia is a clinical entity classified by the presence of chronic widespread pain in at least 11 of the 18 specified tender points and associated with symptoms like fatigue, irritable bowel, sleep disorder, chronic headaches, jaw pain, cognitive or memory impairment, etc.The aim of this study was to evaluate the presences of food allergy symptoms in Fibromyalgia patients.