Not all food additive related reactions originate from commercial foods: chronic urticaria due to home-made canned tomato.
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چکیده
Additives and preservatives in commercial foods have been implicated in the etiology of chronic urticaria, but such foods have not been widely accepted. In some countries, as in ours, people prefer to use home-made foodstuffs to avoid potentially hazardous commercial additives. However, not all home-made foodstuffs are safe, especially regarding allergies. In this report, we describe a patient with chronic urticaria due to home-made canned tomato prepared using "tomato drug" as a "safe (!)" additive.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Journal of investigational allergology & clinical immunology
دوره 15 2 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2005