Suchergebnisse

Clinical manifestations of food allergic disease / Tamara T. Perry, Amy M. Scurlock, Stacie M. Jones -- Exploring current and novel methods for the detection and diagnosis of food allergy: the clinical approach / Adriano Mari, Enrico Scala -- The big eight foods: clinical and epidemiological overview / Suzanne S. Teuber [and others] -- Molecular and immunological responses to food / Victor Turcanu, Gideon Lack -- The relationship of t-cell epitopes and allergen structure / Samuel J. Landry -- Vaccines and immunotherapies for future treatment of food allergy / Wesley Burks, Ariana Buchanan, Laurent Pons -- Animal models for food allergy / Ricki Helm -- Approaches to the detection of food allergens, from a food science perspective / Carmen D. Westphal -- Predicting the allergenicity of novel proteins in genetically modified organisms / Richard E. Goodman, John Wise -- Bioinformatics for predicating allergenicity / Steven M. Gendel -- Structural database for allergic proteins (sdap) / Catherine Schein, Ovidiu Ivanciuc, Werner Braun -- Hypoallergenic foods beyond infant formula / Peggy Ozias-Akins, Maria Laura Ramos, Ye Chu -- The effects of processing methods on allergenic properties of food proteins / Soheila Maleki, Shri Sathe.

Objectives: The current review presents the pathogenic mechanisms, diagnostic and therapeutic and preventive measures to avoid the development of complications related to latex allergy. Method: Literature search electronically from articles already published on the basis of the NCBI / PUBMED / MEDLINE. Results: Manifestations of latex allergy are related to immediate hypersensitivity such as urticaria, angioedema, asthma or even anaphylaxis, or delayed hypersensitivity by a mechanism such as allergic contact dermatitis or primary irritation. Conclusion: Prevention of exposure, replacement and use of latex-free products such as synthetic gloves are essential for those affected. Adjustments in the workplace should be done with gloves without talc, low in allergens or synthetic gloves. These preventive measures significantly reduce the prevalence of allergic reactions.

Agricultural workers (n = 121) referred to the Nofer Institute of Occupational Medicine for suspected occupational disease were subjected to dermatological and allergological examinations. All were patch and prick tested with standard occupational and environmental allergen sets. Contact dermatitis was diagnosed in 60 (49.6%) patients. In the women, the dominant allergy was that to nickel, benzalkonium, palladium, cobalt, thimerosal, fragrances and balsam of Peru, while the men were most frequently sensitive to chromates, cobalt, 4-phenylenediamine, fragrances, captan, formaldehyde, 4-aminoazobenzene, wool alcohols and cinnamic alcohol. Phenylmercuric chloride caused allergic reactions in 6 women and 2 men, while 6 workers were sensitive to neomycin. Allergy to glutaraldehyde was diagnosed in 3 workers, to lysol in 4, to chlorhexidine in 1, to chloramine in 1. Three patients reacted to thiurams, 3 to diphenylguanidine, 3 to mercaptobenzothiazole. Of the 9 workers sensitive to 4-phenylenediamine, only 2 men reacted additionally to N-isopropyl-N-4-phenylenediamine. Ziram (zinc dimethyldithiocarbamate) and copper sulfate caused allergy in 1 agricultural worker each. Immediate allergy was diagnosed in 43 (35.5%) patients. The dominant allergens in that category included straw dust, hay dust, wheat threshing, rye pollen and cow epithelium. The final diagnosis was based on the clinical picture and the results of the patch and prick tests. Allergic contact dermatitis was diagnosed in 27 (22.3%), atopic dermatitis in 27, irritant contact dermatitis in 15 (12.4%) and urticaria in 9 (7.5%) agricultural workers. Other dermal diseases were diagnosed in single patients. The clinical examinations showed no dermal lesions in 31 (25.6%) patients.