72 The Choice of Hypoallergens for Fish and Peach to Develop Food Allergy Specific Immunotherapy (TheFAST Project) Laurian Zuidmeer-Jongejan, PhD, Serge Versteeg, Lars Poulsen, MD, PhD, Montserrat Fernandez-Rivas, MD, PhD, Marek L. Kowalski, MD, PhD, Nikos Papadopoulos, Adriano Mari, MD, Ines Swoboda, PhD, Michael Clausen, MD, PhD, Carsten Bindslev-Jensen, MD, PhD, Angela Neubauer, PhD, Stef Ko...

BACKGROUND Lipid transfer proteins (LTPs) are relevant allergens, and have recently been proposed as model plant allergens from fruit, vegetables, seeds, and pollens. However, no LTP spice allergen has been characterized to date. OBJECTIVES To identify and isolate saffron LTPs and to explore their relevance in saffron allergy. METHODS Six patients with rhinitis and positive skin prick test ...

AIM To determine the course of food allergy in accordance with the level of respiratory tract injury in children of Eastern Siberia. DESIGN OF THE RESEARCH We have examined 70 children aged 2-16 , who have food sensibilization. We divided them into 2 groups: group I (n = 32) with diseases of the upper and middle respiratory tract; and group II (n = 38) with diseases of the lower respiratory t...

Cashew apple juice has the potential to be a natural source of vitamin C and sugar in processed foods. The juice of the cashew apple is obtained by pressing the fleshy peduncle or receptacle, which forms a rounded apple that sits above the true fruit, the cashew nut. Cashew nut allergy is the second most commonly reported tree nut allergy in the United States. To determine if cashew apple juice...

OBJECTIVE Increasing childhood asthma rates may be due to changing dietary lifestyle. We investigated the association of dietary intake of antioxidant vitamins and fatty acids with asthma in Japanese pre-school children. DESIGN Cross-sectional study. SETTING School-based survey on lifestyle/diet and health status in children in Japan. SUBJECTS Parents of 452 children aged 3-6 years comple...

Biodiversity loss and climate change secondary to human activities are now being associated with various adverse health effects. However, less attention is being paid to the effects of biodiversity loss on environmental and commensal (indigenous) microbiotas. Metagenomic and other studies of healthy and diseased individuals reveal that reduced biodiversity and alterations in the composition of ...

background: the prevalence of allergy and asthma among children is increasing in many countries. however, such inclination has not been completely cleared in north of iran. this study was carried out to evaluate the prevalence of asthma and allergic diseases in school children in gorgan and also to evaluate the association between allergies and sex, family history of atopic disorders, and perso...

Five young women, all of whom had anaphylactic responses in operating units, are described. Three of them worked in a hospital three showed immediate hypersensitivity to fruit and all had known urticaria to latex. Anaphylaxis appeared progressively 15 to 30 minutes after injection of anaesthetic drugs. Skin tests with these drugs were negative. Skin prick tests through gloves and with four diff...

Hypersensitivity to the fruit mango is extremely rare and can exhibit either as immediate or delayed reactions. Since 1939, only 22 patients (10 with immediate type I reactions and 12 with delayed) have been documented with allergy to mango. History of atopy and geographical region may influence the type of reaction. Immediate reactions occurred most often in patients with history of atopy, whi...