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Anaphylaxis After Consumption of Guar Gum-Containing Food: A Report of Two Cases
Guar gum is a food additive that acts as a thickening agent. Although the relationship between guar gum and occupational rhinitis/asthma has already been established, only very few cases of anaphylaxis were associated with guar gum ingestion. We present two examples of anaphylaxis induced by guar gu...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9471981/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36134088 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.28022 |
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author | Dumanoglu, Betul Alpagat, Gulistan Poyraz, Merve Alan Yalim, Sumeyra Baccioglu, Ayse |
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description | Guar gum is a food additive that acts as a thickening agent. Although the relationship between guar gum and occupational rhinitis/asthma has already been established, only very few cases of anaphylaxis were associated with guar gum ingestion. We present two examples of anaphylaxis induced by guar gum. Both cases were successfully treated with adrenaline. Moreover, serum-specific immunoglobulin E (IgE) with the culprit agent was detected in blood samples. To the best of our knowledge, here we present the first case of class 6 guar gum-specific IgE-positive anaphylaxis. This report aims to raise awareness of rare food additive allergies such as guar gum. |
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spelling | pubmed-94719812022-09-20 Anaphylaxis After Consumption of Guar Gum-Containing Food: A Report of Two Cases Dumanoglu, Betul Alpagat, Gulistan Poyraz, Merve Alan Yalim, Sumeyra Baccioglu, Ayse Cureus Internal Medicine Guar gum is a food additive that acts as a thickening agent. Although the relationship between guar gum and occupational rhinitis/asthma has already been established, only very few cases of anaphylaxis were associated with guar gum ingestion. We present two examples of anaphylaxis induced by guar gum. Both cases were successfully treated with adrenaline. Moreover, serum-specific immunoglobulin E (IgE) with the culprit agent was detected in blood samples. To the best of our knowledge, here we present the first case of class 6 guar gum-specific IgE-positive anaphylaxis. This report aims to raise awareness of rare food additive allergies such as guar gum. Cureus 2022-08-15 /pmc/articles/PMC9471981/ /pubmed/36134088 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.28022 Text en Copyright © 2022, Dumanoglu et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Internal Medicine Dumanoglu, Betul Alpagat, Gulistan Poyraz, Merve Alan Yalim, Sumeyra Baccioglu, Ayse Anaphylaxis After Consumption of Guar Gum-Containing Food: A Report of Two Cases |
title | Anaphylaxis After Consumption of Guar Gum-Containing Food: A Report of Two Cases |
title_full | Anaphylaxis After Consumption of Guar Gum-Containing Food: A Report of Two Cases |
title_fullStr | Anaphylaxis After Consumption of Guar Gum-Containing Food: A Report of Two Cases |
title_full_unstemmed | Anaphylaxis After Consumption of Guar Gum-Containing Food: A Report of Two Cases |
title_short | Anaphylaxis After Consumption of Guar Gum-Containing Food: A Report of Two Cases |
title_sort | anaphylaxis after consumption of guar gum-containing food: a report of two cases |
topic | Internal Medicine |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9471981/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36134088 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.28022 |
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