Likely questionnaire-diagnosed food allergy in 78, 890 adults from the northern Netherlands

Food Allergy in Adults

The knowledge on adverse reactions to foods and the spectrum of food-related gastrointestinal symptoms in relation to allergy in adults is still scarce. The conventional allergy tests do not always offer with precision an accurate diagnosis in case of suspicious food allergy and therefore patients often need to be investigated further with oral food challenge or even intestinal biopsy. Adult pa...

Food Taxes: How Likely Are Likely Effects?

Exploring the Factor Structure, Reliability and Validity of the Food Craving Questionnaire-Trait in Iranian adults

Background & Aims: Food Craving refers to an intense desire for eating specific foods. Food Craving Questionnaire-Trait (FCQ-T) is the most commonly used instrument to assess food craving as a multidimensional construct. Its 39 items have an underlying nine-factor structure for both the original English and Spanish versions; but subsequent studies yielded fewer factors. The pre...

Health-related quality of life, assessed with a disease-specific questionnaire, in Swedish adults suffering from well-diagnosed food allergy to staple foods

BACKGROUND Our aim was to investigate the factors that affect health related quality of life (HRQL) in adult Swedish food allergic patients objectively diagnosed with allergy to at least one of the staple foods cow's milk, hen's egg or wheat. The number of foods involved, the type and severity of symptoms, as well as concomitant allergic disorders were assessed. METHODS The disease-specific f...

Pattern of food allergy in adults

The pattern of food allergy in adults is different from that of children in various aspects. The typical foods involved in infants are milk, egg, peanut and probably tree nuts, whereas in older children and adults fruits and nuts are the most frequent allergenic foods. In addition, allergy to vegetables can occur. Allergy to milk and egg largely disappears at young age, but can still be present...