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Severe reaction in a child with asymptomatic codfish allergy: Food challenge reactivating recurrent pancreatitis

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Title
Severe reaction in a child with asymptomatic codfish allergy: Food challenge reactivating recurrent pancreatitis
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Italian Journal of Pediatrics, May 2012
DOI 10.1186/1824-7288-38-16
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Katia Pellegrino, Leila Emma D’Urbano, Maria Cristina Artesani, Carla Riccardi, Sandro Mancini, Sergio Bella, Federico Alghisi, Giovanni Cavagni

Abstract

An 8-year-old child during the first year of life manifested severe atopic dermatitis and chronic diarrhea with mucorrhea and rectal bleeding; a fish-free diet was started based on weakly positive skin-prick tests to codfish extract. At the age of 4 years the child began to suffer of recurrent pancreatitis. When he came to our attention for the evaluation of his fish allergy, he was asymptomatic; a weak reactivity to codfish was observed (SPTs: cod, 4 mm, sIgE ImmunoCAP: cod, 1.30 kU/l). The food challenge test with cod was negative. When the child ate cod again, within 5 minutes, developed anaphylactic reaction and complained of abdominal pain compatible with pancreatitis (enzyme serum levels risen and parenchymal oedema at ultrasonography), that resolved within 7 days after specific therapy. This case raises two issues: the elimination diet in asymptomatic food allergy on the basis only of SPT and the ethicality of food challenge in gastrointestinal chronic disease.

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Unknown 33 100%

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 7 21%
Student > Master 5 15%
Student > Postgraduate 4 12%
Student > Bachelor 4 12%
Student > Doctoral Student 1 3%
Other 6 18%
Unknown 6 18%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 16 48%
Nursing and Health Professions 4 12%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 2 6%
Unspecified 1 3%
Immunology and Microbiology 1 3%
Other 3 9%
Unknown 6 18%
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