Milk Allergy in Infantile Atopic Eczema

Freedman, Stanley S.

doi:10.1001/archpedi.1961.02080010078012

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“…Milk, eggs, soybeans and wheat have been considered as the most frequent dietary antigens promoting these skin diseases in Japan (44,45). Lipid components of these foods may contract the gallbladder; however, other animal fats and vegetable oil may also contract the gallbladder and cooked oil may intensify the action (36).…”

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Interrelationship between Biliary Dyskinesia and Chronic Urticaria, Chronic Eczema and Atopic Dermatitis

Nishimura

1986

The Journal of Dermatology

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Interrelationships between biliary dyskinesia and chronic urticaria, chronic eczema and atopic dermatitis have been studied in 210 biliary dyskinesia patients and 60 normal subjects. Incidences of chronic urticaria, chronic eczema and atopic dermatitis were found more frequently in biliary dyskinesia patients than normal subjects. Skin symptoms of these chronic urticaria, chronic eczema and atopic dermatitis cases showed significant normalization with improved gallbladder contraction rate. COMT inhibitor therapy and fat restriction were more effective for the skin symptoms and for prolonging the interval before recidivation or exacerbation of these allergic diseases than conservative therapy.

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“…Therefore, overeating of such oils may "induce biliary dyskinesia. For these reasons, it may be difficult to detect the allergens inducing these skin diseases and negative opinions may exist over the interrelationship between these skin diseases and foods (45)(46)(47).…”

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Interrelationship between Biliary Dyskinesia and Chronic Urticaria, Chronic Eczema and Atopic Dermatitis

Nishimura

1986

The Journal of Dermatology

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“…When he subsequently reintroduced the egg he detected exacerbation of eczema in only two, though eight developed urticarial lesions within minutes of eating egg. Freedman (1961) found that fourteen out of forty-eight children with eczema had positive immediate skin tests to cows' milk. The parents reported that milk was responsible for aggravation of the disease in twelve of the forty-eight, and seven of the fourteen positive skin tests occurred in these twelve.…”

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Allergy and atopic eczema II

Atherton¹

1981

Clin Exp Dermatol

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Most dermatologists are agreed on the important part played in the patient with atopic eczema by non immunological phenomena such as scratching and mental stress. However, many find it difficult to accept that atopic eczema might be primarily an allergic disease, and some authors virtually discount this possibility (Norins, 1971;Emmerson, 1979). Since the atopic state is by definition an allergic one, and as allergy has been established to play a central role in asthma and hayfever, it would seem improbable a priori that this third major disease of atopic individuals should not result to some extent from allergy. Non-allergic factors such as exercise and psychological infiuences are also aetiologically important in asthma, so that the established role of non-allergic factors in atopic eczema should not prejudice the issue.The question of food allergy has always excited the most interest, and a considerable amotint has been published on the subject. These publications have been concerned with three principal topics: (i) diagnosis of food allergy by skin tests and/or IgE RAST; (2) 'challenge' studies; (3) therapeutic elimination diets. These will now be considered in turn. Diagnosis of food allergy in atopic eczema by skin tests and/or IgE RASTThe question of the role of IgE antibodies in the pathogenesis of atopic eczema has been discussed in the first part of this article. Until we have a clearer understanding of the precise part played by these antibodies, it will remain difficult to interpret usefully the results of skin tests and in vitro tests such as the RAST. The presence of immediate-type allergy to foods in patients with eczema does not necessarily imply that exposure to these foods causes the disease. Much of the misunderstanding concerning the question of food allergy in eczema hinges on this point. Otir ignorance of the significance of specific IgE antibodies in eczematous patients limits the value of these tests in their management. However, patients with atopic eczema do differ from those with asthma and hayfever in having a generally very much higher frequency of positive immediate skin tests to foods (Barnetson, in press), and much greater 0307-6938/81/0500-0317$02.00

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“…From a literature review of Ratner [22] follows for example that 38% of the allergic children with atopic dermatitis and 13% of the infants with asthma show positive skin reactions to egg. More recently F r e e d m a n [15] performed skin tests in 50 children with dermatitis. He observed that 69% of these children reacted after injection with an egg extract.…”

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