Asthma: when suspect food allergy in patients with asthma

Methods We analyzed randomly a study of 36 cases among the medical records of patients from the files of the BSFA (Brazilian Society of Food Allergy ), aged between 2 and 16 years, of both genders, with the diagnosis of food allergy and asthma. Asthma was diagnosed by the classical clinical picture. Food allergy was diagnosed by the normalization of the clinical picture in response to the withdraw of the offending food from the patient diet, resulting in total disapearance of the clinical disturbance. All patient relapse after the food chalenge with the offending food. All the patients had both diseases mediated by IgE.