Coconut Allergy Revisited

Despite concerns voiced often by food-allergic patients, allergy to coconut is rare, not directly associated with nut allergy and few cases are reported so far in the literature. We present an interesting case of coconut allergy in a child that was previously tolerant to coconut and regularly expose...

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Autor principal: Anagnostou, Katherine
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2017
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5664015/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28961189
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/children4100085
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description Despite concerns voiced often by food-allergic patients, allergy to coconut is rare, not directly associated with nut allergy and few cases are reported so far in the literature. We present an interesting case of coconut allergy in a child that was previously tolerant to coconut and regularly exposed via both the skin and gastrointestinal route.
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spelling pubmed-56640152017-11-06 Coconut Allergy Revisited Anagnostou, Katherine Children (Basel) Case Report Despite concerns voiced often by food-allergic patients, allergy to coconut is rare, not directly associated with nut allergy and few cases are reported so far in the literature. We present an interesting case of coconut allergy in a child that was previously tolerant to coconut and regularly exposed via both the skin and gastrointestinal route. MDPI 2017-09-29 /pmc/articles/PMC5664015/ /pubmed/28961189 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/children4100085 Text en © 2017 by the author. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5664015/
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