Adult onset egg allergy: a case report

BACKGROUND: Egg allergy is one of the most frequent food allergies in childhood while adult onset of egg allergy is a rare condition. CASE PRESENTATION: We report the case of a 30 years old man sent to our center in order to investigate gastrointestinal symptoms occurring since 2 years after egg and...

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Autores principales: Cremonte, Elisa Maria, Galdi, Eugenia, Roncallo, Chiara, Boni, Elisa, Cremonte, Luigi Giovanni
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2021
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8489036/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34602090
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12948-021-00156-7
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author Cremonte, Elisa Maria
Galdi, Eugenia
Roncallo, Chiara
Boni, Elisa
Cremonte, Luigi Giovanni
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Cremonte, Luigi Giovanni
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description BACKGROUND: Egg allergy is one of the most frequent food allergies in childhood while adult onset of egg allergy is a rare condition. CASE PRESENTATION: We report the case of a 30 years old man sent to our center in order to investigate gastrointestinal symptoms occurring since 2 years after egg and derivatives intake. He did not suffer from egg or other food allergies in childhood. He is an active smoker with a contact dermatitis related to nickel and mild allergic rhinoconjunctivitis to grass pollen. Skin prick test and serum specific IgE to egg were performed and revealed sensitization to egg proteins. CONCLUSIONS: Even though IgE-mediated egg allergy affects children, this report witnesses a rare case of adult onset.
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spelling pubmed-84890362021-10-04 Adult onset egg allergy: a case report Cremonte, Elisa Maria Galdi, Eugenia Roncallo, Chiara Boni, Elisa Cremonte, Luigi Giovanni Clin Mol Allergy Case Report BACKGROUND: Egg allergy is one of the most frequent food allergies in childhood while adult onset of egg allergy is a rare condition. CASE PRESENTATION: We report the case of a 30 years old man sent to our center in order to investigate gastrointestinal symptoms occurring since 2 years after egg and derivatives intake. He did not suffer from egg or other food allergies in childhood. He is an active smoker with a contact dermatitis related to nickel and mild allergic rhinoconjunctivitis to grass pollen. Skin prick test and serum specific IgE to egg were performed and revealed sensitization to egg proteins. CONCLUSIONS: Even though IgE-mediated egg allergy affects children, this report witnesses a rare case of adult onset. BioMed Central 2021-10-04 /pmc/articles/PMC8489036/ /pubmed/34602090 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12948-021-00156-7 Text en © The Author(s) 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8489036/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34602090
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12948-021-00156-7
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