Food Allergy in Children: Its Protean Manifestations

The general practitioner as well as the allergist is well aware of the commoner forms of allergy in childhood—asthma, eczema, and seasonal pollinosis, to name some. It is the purpose of this paper to call to your attention some of the more uncommon, sometimes bizarre and perplexing manifestations of allergy in children. These conditions may also occur in adults, but are then more often more easily tracked down because of the adult's greater ability to correlate his symptoms with his food habits. Since knowledge is for the most part the accumulation of past experience, this probably can best be accomplished by describing a few such cases.