Studies of Hypersensitivity to Fish

Relationship of fish and cod oil intake with adult asthma

“…Anxiousness about fish allergy in childhood could still explain such avoidance. However, public awareness of possible fish allergy in the study area was established after the 1970s [20], and the subjects in the present study were born in the period from 1945 to 1976. This is therefore unlikely to have influenced our results and is further supported by data from Iceland and Sweden of the same population, where the prevalence of fish allergy was low (0.2%) in both centres [21].…”

The radioallergosorbent test with a purified allergen from codfish

“…Serum was collected from an adult male patient allergic to cod (Aas, 1966a, b), and was used for passive transfer tests and for adjustment ofthe RAST-technique modification to be used. This serum has been used as the reference serum in a number of studies previously reported (Aas, 1966a(Aas, , b, 1969Aas, Foucard & Johansson, 1971 ;Elsayed & Aas, 1971). It has been shown to be able in high dilutions to sensitize human skin in vivo and chopped human lung in vitro for challenges with cod extracts and DS 22, and to react in RAST coupled to Sephadex particles (Foucard et ai.. RAST with purified allergen from codfish 257 1973).…”

Crustacea allergy

“…Some studies have similarly indicated that atopic individuals are at greater risk for severe food-related allergic reactions [20], Several ofour subjects reported adverse reactions from the 'smell" of Crustacea during preparation [21,22]. The "smcir offish and other food has been reported to induce similar adverse responses [23,24]. Laboratory studies have demonstrated that shrimp and other Crustacea retain significant allergenicity despite boiling [21,22,25,26].…”