Anaphylaxis caused by honey ingestion in an infant.

case of a florist with rhinoconjunctivitis and asthma due to sensitisation to Freesia, which is from the same family as the gladiolus. Ordoqui 6 reported a case of a florist, who has worked with plants for 18 years. He refers respiratory symptoms upon exposure to gladiolus and carnation, with positive prick test to these plants, specific IgE by ELISA on patient serum, and positive bronchial challenges. The immuno-blotting showed two proteins of 40 and 47 kDa on carnation extract, but nothing for the gladiolus extract. In order to determinate the prevalence of occupational asthma and sensitisation to workplace allergens in greenhouse flowers and/or ornamental plant growers, Monsó 7 et al. studied a population of 39 growers, and found three cases of occupational asthma. The growers were sensitised to various moulds in one case; to gladiolus spp. in the second; and to Aspergillus and different flowers (including gladiolus) the patient cultivated in the third. In summary, we present a case of rhinoconjunctivitis and asthma due to sensitisation to gladiolus proteins, and on the basis of in vitro test, we identified three proteins of 70, 52 and 21 kDa. as the main allergens causing sensitisation in this patient, data which, to the best of our knowledge, have never been reported.