Incremental build-up food challenge - A new diagnostic approach to evaluate pseudoallergic reactions in chronic urticaria: A pilot study - Stepwise food challenge in chronic urticaria

Clinical and Experimental Allergy

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 116-126

  Bunselmeyer, B ^a   Laubach, H J ^a   Schiller, M ^a   Stanke, M ^b   Luger, T A ^a   Brehler, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Additives; Chronic urticaria; Diet; Elimination diet; Food challenge; IBUF; Oral provocation diet; Outpatient; Pseudoallergens; Pseudoallergic

Indexed keywords

4 HYDROXYBENZOIC ACID; ALLERGEN; ANETHOLE; ANTIHISTAMINIC AGENT; AROMATIC COMPOUND; CORTICOSTEROID; FLAVORING AGENT; FOOD ADDITIVE; FOOD DYE; FOOD PRESERVATIVE; PLACEBO; PSEUDOALLERGEN; SALICYLIC ACID; SWEETENING AGENT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VANILLIN DERIVATIVE;

ADULT; AGED; ALLERGIC REACTION; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHRONIC DISEASE; CHRONIC URTICARIA; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; DEMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIET; DISEASE SEVERITY; EXCLUSION DIET; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FOOD; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OPEN STUDY; OUTPATIENT CARE; PATIENT INFORMATION; PATIENT SELECTION; PILOT STUDY; PLACEBO EFFECT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROVOCATION TEST; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RECURRENT DISEASE; REMISSION; TELEPHONE; TREATMENT RESPONSE; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ALLERGENS; CHILD; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; FOOD ADDITIVES; FOOD HYPERSENSITIVITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PILOT PROJECTS; QUALITY OF LIFE; RECURRENCE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; URTICARIA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 58149267958     PISSN: 09547894     EISSN: 13652222     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2222.2008.03110.x     Document Type: Article

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