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Food And Behaviour

Food And Behaviour ISSN 0905-6157 Review article Food and behaviour Allergy, intolerance or aversion Warner JO. Food and behaviour. Allergy, intolerance or aversion. Pediatr Allergy Immunol 1993: 4: 112-116. © Munksgaard 1993. J. 0. Warner Child Health, University of Southampton/ Southampton General Hospital, England J. 0 . Warner, Child Health, University of Southampton/Southampton General Hospital, England Received January 30,1993 Accepted February 11,1993 Even the most sceptical clinician is able to accept that food can sometimes cause acute allergic reactions. An immediate response with catastropahic anaphylaxis or angio-oedema and urticaria is usually associated with positive allergy skin tests and detectable IgE antibodies, which makes the diagnosis easy and obvious. However, it is far more frequent for the paediatrician to be presented with a child who appears to have a reaction to food which cannot be related to an obvious immune response and in which the reaction occurs some hours after ingestion of the food. Thus, the term food intolerance has been used to encompass any reproducible abnormal non-psychologically mediated reaction to food. This can be due to a variety of mechanisms which may be immunological or may be due to an enzyme deficiency, a pharmacological reaction, a toxic effect, or due to http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Pediatric Allergy and Immunology Wiley

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Wiley
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Copyright © 1993 Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company
ISSN
0905-6157
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1399-3038
DOI
10.1111/j.1399-3038.1993.tb00078.x
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ISSN 0905-6157 Review article Food and behaviour Allergy, intolerance or aversion Warner JO. Food and behaviour. Allergy, intolerance or aversion. Pediatr Allergy Immunol 1993: 4: 112-116. © Munksgaard 1993. J. 0. Warner Child Health, University of Southampton/ Southampton General Hospital, England J. 0 . Warner, Child Health, University of Southampton/Southampton General Hospital, England Received January 30,1993 Accepted February 11,1993 Even the most sceptical clinician is able to accept that food can sometimes cause acute allergic reactions. An immediate response with catastropahic anaphylaxis or angio-oedema and urticaria is usually associated with positive allergy skin tests and detectable IgE antibodies, which makes the diagnosis easy and obvious. However, it is far more frequent for the paediatrician to be presented with a child who appears to have a reaction to food which cannot be related to an obvious immune response and in which the reaction occurs some hours after ingestion of the food. Thus, the term food intolerance has been used to encompass any reproducible abnormal non-psychologically mediated reaction to food. This can be due to a variety of mechanisms which may be immunological or may be due to an enzyme deficiency, a pharmacological reaction, a toxic effect, or due to

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Pediatric Allergy and ImmunologyWiley

Published: Aug 1, 1993

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