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Immediate hypersensitivity to common food allergens: an investigation on food sensitization in respiratory allergic patients of Calcutta, India

BACKGROUND: Food allergy may be defined as an immunoglobulin E-mediated immune response to food proteins. Such studies have previously not been done in Calcutta, India. The present study was therefore undertaken to record the sensitivity to commonly consumed foods in patients with allergic rhinitis...

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Autores principales: Mandal, Jyotshna, Das, Mahasweta, Roy, Indrani, Chatterjee, Soma, Barui, Nimai Chandra, Gupta-Bhattacharya, Swati
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Publicado: World Allergy Organization 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3650995/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23282888
http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/WOX.0b013e318194c0de
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author Mandal, Jyotshna
Das, Mahasweta
Roy, Indrani
Chatterjee, Soma
Barui, Nimai Chandra
Gupta-Bhattacharya, Swati
author_facet Mandal, Jyotshna
Das, Mahasweta
Roy, Indrani
Chatterjee, Soma
Barui, Nimai Chandra
Gupta-Bhattacharya, Swati
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description BACKGROUND: Food allergy may be defined as an immunoglobulin E-mediated immune response to food proteins. Such studies have previously not been done in Calcutta, India. The present study was therefore undertaken to record the sensitivity to commonly consumed foods in patients with allergic rhinitis and asthma. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A survey of 800 patients (410 males and 390 females) reporting to the Allergy Unit of the Institute of Child Health, Calcutta, were selected for the study conducted from May 2006 to April 2007. Respiratory allergic patients in the age group of 5 to 60 years were evaluated using a standard questionnaire, and skin prick test was performed using common food and aeroallergens. RESULTS/CONCLUSIONS: Out of the 684 patients with a history of food allergy, most of them, that is, 338, are in the age group 16 to 40 years, 192 of them were in the age group 41 to 60 years, and 154 were in the age group 5 to 15 years. Most of the patients with food allergy had asthma (65.05%), rhinitis and asthma (20.03%), and skin allergies (4.97%), such as itching, eczema, and urticaria. The foodstuffs that were found to elicit symptoms of hypersensitivity were egg, milk, wheat, pulses, vegetables, fishes, and fruits. The patients aged between 16 and 40 years (male-female ratio, 1:1.19) were mostly sensitive to prawn, brinjal, banana, ladyfinger, papaya, wheat, and egg. The age group 41 to 60 years (male-female ratio, 1:1.04) had high skin reactivity to brinjal, egg, banana, fish, and Phaseolus mungo. Patients younger than 16 years (male-female ratio, 1:1.33) were sensitized to brinjal, prawn, banana, spinach, and egg. We observed that food hypersensitivity also reflects different genetic factors and variations in cultural and dietary habits of each individual.
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spelling pubmed-36509952013-07-12 Immediate hypersensitivity to common food allergens: an investigation on food sensitization in respiratory allergic patients of Calcutta, India Mandal, Jyotshna Das, Mahasweta Roy, Indrani Chatterjee, Soma Barui, Nimai Chandra Gupta-Bhattacharya, Swati World Allergy Organ J Original Research BACKGROUND: Food allergy may be defined as an immunoglobulin E-mediated immune response to food proteins. Such studies have previously not been done in Calcutta, India. The present study was therefore undertaken to record the sensitivity to commonly consumed foods in patients with allergic rhinitis and asthma. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A survey of 800 patients (410 males and 390 females) reporting to the Allergy Unit of the Institute of Child Health, Calcutta, were selected for the study conducted from May 2006 to April 2007. Respiratory allergic patients in the age group of 5 to 60 years were evaluated using a standard questionnaire, and skin prick test was performed using common food and aeroallergens. RESULTS/CONCLUSIONS: Out of the 684 patients with a history of food allergy, most of them, that is, 338, are in the age group 16 to 40 years, 192 of them were in the age group 41 to 60 years, and 154 were in the age group 5 to 15 years. Most of the patients with food allergy had asthma (65.05%), rhinitis and asthma (20.03%), and skin allergies (4.97%), such as itching, eczema, and urticaria. The foodstuffs that were found to elicit symptoms of hypersensitivity were egg, milk, wheat, pulses, vegetables, fishes, and fruits. The patients aged between 16 and 40 years (male-female ratio, 1:1.19) were mostly sensitive to prawn, brinjal, banana, ladyfinger, papaya, wheat, and egg. The age group 41 to 60 years (male-female ratio, 1:1.04) had high skin reactivity to brinjal, egg, banana, fish, and Phaseolus mungo. Patients younger than 16 years (male-female ratio, 1:1.33) were sensitized to brinjal, prawn, banana, spinach, and egg. We observed that food hypersensitivity also reflects different genetic factors and variations in cultural and dietary habits of each individual. World Allergy Organization 2009-01-15 /pmc/articles/PMC3650995/ /pubmed/23282888 http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/WOX.0b013e318194c0de Text en Copyright ©2009 World Allergy Organization; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Mandal, Jyotshna
Das, Mahasweta
Roy, Indrani
Chatterjee, Soma
Barui, Nimai Chandra
Gupta-Bhattacharya, Swati
Immediate hypersensitivity to common food allergens: an investigation on food sensitization in respiratory allergic patients of Calcutta, India
title Immediate hypersensitivity to common food allergens: an investigation on food sensitization in respiratory allergic patients of Calcutta, India
title_full Immediate hypersensitivity to common food allergens: an investigation on food sensitization in respiratory allergic patients of Calcutta, India
title_fullStr Immediate hypersensitivity to common food allergens: an investigation on food sensitization in respiratory allergic patients of Calcutta, India
title_full_unstemmed Immediate hypersensitivity to common food allergens: an investigation on food sensitization in respiratory allergic patients of Calcutta, India
title_short Immediate hypersensitivity to common food allergens: an investigation on food sensitization in respiratory allergic patients of Calcutta, India
title_sort immediate hypersensitivity to common food allergens: an investigation on food sensitization in respiratory allergic patients of calcutta, india
topic Original Research
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3650995/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23282888
http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/WOX.0b013e318194c0de
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