BACKGROUND About 20% of schoolchildren and adolescents in Sweden suffer from perceived food hypersensitivity (e.g. allergy or intolerance). Our knowledge of how child food hypersensitivity affects parents HRQL and what aspects of the hypersensitivity condition relate to HRQL deterioration in the family is limited. Thus the aim of this study was to investigate the parent-reported HRQL in familie...

BACKGROUND It is well known that atopic dermatitis (AD) is related to food hypersensitivity, although its prevalence varies among several studies according to age group, severity, country, survey time, and test method. OBJECTIVE To examine the prevalence and status of food hypersensitivity among childhood AD patients in Korea. METHODS A total of 95 patients were enrolled in the study. The h...

BACKGROUND Food hypersensitivity is commonly suspected, but seldom verified. Patients with subjective food hypersensitivity suffer from both intestinal and extraintestinal health complaints. Abnormalities of the enterochromaffin cells may play a role in the pathogenesis. The aim of this study was to investigate enterochromaffin cell function in patients with subjective food hypersensitivity by ...

Most studies investigated probiotics on food hypersensitivity, not on oral food challenge confirmed food allergy in children. The authors systematically reviewed the literature to investigate whether probiotic supplementation prenatally and/or postnatally could reduce the risk of atopy and food hypersensitivity in young children.PubMed, Embase, the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials...

Though not widely recognized, food hypersensitivity by inhalation can cause major morbidity in affected individuals. The exposure is usually more obvious and often substantial in occupational environments but frequently occurs in non-occupational settings, such as homes, schools, restaurants, grocery stores, and commercial flights. The exposure can be trivial, as in mere smelling or being in th...

BACKGROUND The prevalence of food hypersensitivity in the UK is still largely open to debate. Additionally its pathogenesis is also unclear although it is known that there are differing phenotypes. Determining its prevalence, along with identifying those factors associated with its development will help to assess its clinical importance within the national setting and also add to the debate on ...

Background In natural history of allergy, in some patients sensitized to aeroallergens, appear allergy to novel allergens, and in some cases this are food allergens. Subcutaneous immunotherapy (SIT) is the method of treatment patient with pollen allergy, and one of the aim of this treatment is protection against development novel allergy, but sometimes in clinical practice we observed hypersens...

Background As show our earlier study, food hypersensitivity coexist in 27,2% of patients treated SIT for aeroallergens, and more frequently occurred in patients with plant allergy – 33,3%. Coexistence of plant allergy with food hypersensitivity cold be a cross allergy, or co-allergy. In case of cross allergy, SIT for plant aeroallergens could lead to abate of food hypersensitivity. But if it is...

The aim of this thesis was to estimate the prevalence of reported food hypersensitivity (FHS), associated risk factors, and symptom expressions among schoolchildren. We also compared HRQL among children with unrestricted diet with children with total elimination of cow’s milk, hen’s egg, fish or wheat due to food hypersensitivity, and after categorisation into different phenotypes of FHS. Final...