What do asthmatics have to fear from food and additive allergy?

Clinical and Experimental Allergy

Volumn 40, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1295-1302

  Gillman, A ^a   Douglass, Jo A ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; FOOD ADDITIVE; SULFITE;

ADOLESCENT; ANAPHYLAXIS; ASTHMA; EXERCISE; FEAR; FOOD ALLERGY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NUT ALLERGY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROVOCATION TEST; QUALITY OF LIFE; REVIEW;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; ALLERGENS; ANAPHYLAXIS; ASTHMA; EPINEPHRINE; FOOD ADDITIVES; FOOD HYPERSENSITIVITY; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INJECTIONS; NUT HYPERSENSITIVITY; RISK FACTORS; SELF ADMINISTRATION; SELF CARE;

EID: 77955382087     PISSN: 09547894     EISSN: 13652222     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2222.2010.03528.x     Document Type: Review

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