Can we identify patients at risk of life‐threatening allergic reactions to food?

Turner, Paul; Baumert, J.; Beyer, Kirsten; Boyle, Robert; Chan, Chun‐Han; Clark, Andrew; Crevel, René; DunnGalvin, Audrey; Fernández‐Rivas, Montserrat; Hazel Gowland, M.; Grabenhenrich, Linus; J. Hardy, Steven; F. Houben, Geert; O’B Hourihane, Jonathan; Muraro, Antonella; K. Poulsen, Lars; Pyrz, Katarzyna; C. Remington, Benjamin; Schnadt, Sabine; van Ree, Ronald; Venter, Carina; Worm, Margitta; N. Clare Mills, E.; Roberts, Graham; Ballmer‐Weber, Barbara

doi:10.1111/all.12924

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Can we identify patients at risk of life‐threatening allergic reactions to food?

Published in Allergy • May 3, 2016

Authors:

Paul Turner

J. Baumert

Kirsten Beyer

Abstract

Anaphylaxis has been defined as a 'severe, life-threatening generalized or systemic hypersensitivity reaction'. However, data indicate that the vast majority of food-triggered anaphylactic reactions are not life-threatening. Nonetheless, severe life-threatening reactions do occur and are unpredictab...

Subject

Food hypersensitivity

Medicine

Allergic reaction

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