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Baker's asthma in a child.
- Source :
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Allergologia et immunopathologia [Allergol Immunopathol (Madr)] 2001 Jul-Aug; Vol. 29 (4), pp. 141-3. - Publication Year :
- 2001
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Abstract
- Background: baker's asthma is a well-known occupational lung disease which usually develops in adults. We report the case of a two years old boy who suffered from asthma, urticaria and atopic dermatitis for twelve months, whose symptoms were associated to visits to his grandfather's bakery.<br />Methods and Results: skin prick tests (SPT) were made to dust mites, moulds, flours, alfa-amylase and egg. It was also determined total IgE and specific IgE antibodies to alfa-amylase and flours. Subsequently, a challenge test was carried out with wheat flour. The SPTs were positive to flours, alfa-amylase and egg. The determination of specific IgE antibodies showed 2.64 kU/L to wheat, 0.79 kU/L to glyadin and 2.98 kU/L to alfa-amylase. The patient developed asthma and rhinitis after manipulating wheat flour for 10 min.<br />Conclusions: we demonstrated a type I hypersensitivity to wheat flour and alfa-amylase in a two years old child by SPT, specific IgE antibodies and challenge test. This case in the childhood equivalent of occupational baker's asthma.
- Subjects :
- Angioedema etiology
Animals
Asthma immunology
Chickens
Dermatitis, Atopic etiology
Egg Proteins immunology
Environmental Exposure
Humans
Immunoglobulin E immunology
Infant
Intradermal Tests
Male
Secale immunology
Glycine max immunology
Triticum immunology
Urticaria etiology
Asthma etiology
Cooking
Eggs adverse effects
Flour adverse effects
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 0301-0546
- Volume :
- 29
- Issue :
- 4
- Database :
- MEDLINE
- Journal :
- Allergologia et immunopathologia
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 11674929
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1016/s0301-0546(01)79048-9