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Immediate-Type Respiratory Allergy to Millet-Containing Seed Mixture of Bird Food

Immediate-Type Respiratory Allergy to Millet-Containing Seed Mixture of Bird Food A 21-year-old patient experienced asthmatic attacks when cleaning the cage of his budgerigar. Skin tests and radioallergosorbent test were positive to grass pollen and negative for budgerigar feathers and feces. When the food of the bird, a mixture of grain, was tested, a positive reaction to millet was found. Nasal provocation test with millet was positive. Specific immunoglobulin E antibodies against millet were detected in the radioallergosorbent test and in immunoblot analysis. The immunoblot showed specific immunoglobulin E antibodies against a 60-kd protein in millet of birdseed and against a 60-and 36-kd protein in common millet. Immediate-type allergy to millet is rare and occurs mostly as anaphylactic reaction after ingestion of millet but may also occur as asthmatic attack after inhalation of millet. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png World Allergy Organization Journal Springer Journals

Immediate-Type Respiratory Allergy to Millet-Containing Seed Mixture of Bird Food

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Publisher
Springer Journals
Copyright
Copyright © 2008 by World Allergy Organization; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.
Subject
Medicine & Public Health; Allergology; Immunology
eISSN
1939-4551
DOI
10.1097/WOX.0b013e31817833ef
pmid
23282548
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Abstract

A 21-year-old patient experienced asthmatic attacks when cleaning the cage of his budgerigar. Skin tests and radioallergosorbent test were positive to grass pollen and negative for budgerigar feathers and feces. When the food of the bird, a mixture of grain, was tested, a positive reaction to millet was found. Nasal provocation test with millet was positive. Specific immunoglobulin E antibodies against millet were detected in the radioallergosorbent test and in immunoblot analysis. The immunoblot showed specific immunoglobulin E antibodies against a 60-kd protein in millet of birdseed and against a 60-and 36-kd protein in common millet. Immediate-type allergy to millet is rare and occurs mostly as anaphylactic reaction after ingestion of millet but may also occur as asthmatic attack after inhalation of millet.

Journal

World Allergy Organization JournalSpringer Journals

Published: Aug 15, 2008

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