Biomedical subjects

I Galatas

Publications and source records attributed to I Galatas.

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PubMed1996

Anaphylaxis induced by lentils.

BACKGROUND: The legume food family is large and includes peanut and soybean, two of the most frequent causes of food allergy. Literature on type I hypersensitivity to lentils, also a legume, is scarce. OBJECTIVE: To describe a child with repeated anaphylactic reactions related to lentils. METHODS: Skin prick tests with both commercial and cooked extracts and serum-specific IgE measured by CAP-RIA were used to identify specific IgE antibodies to various legumes. RESULTS: An 8-year-old girl suffered four episodes of anaphylaxis related to lentils from ages 3 to 7 years. The first three involved ingestion of cooked lentils and each time smaller amounts induced symptoms. The fourth episode occurred with inhalation exposure to cooking lentil soup. Subsequently, she presented with contact urticaria from raw chickpeas and an anaphylactic reaction after ingestion of cooked chickpeas. Prick tests showed strongly positive reactions to lentil and chickpea and weaker positive reactions to peanut, pea, soybean, and white bean. CAP-RIA was class 6 to lentil; class 5 to peanut, pea, and soybean; class 4 to white bean, and class 0 to green bean. CONCLUSION: Severe type I hypersensitivity to lentils occurred in this patient and was associated with clinically relevant hypersensitivity to chickpeas. Prick tests and CAP-RIA demonstrated multiple positive reactions to other legumes.

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Silk-induced asthma.

The existence of professional allergens in the home environment is important because their avoidance usually resolves the problem completely. We report on a case of an asthmatic woman who, for five years, was helping her husband create large artistic screens with the cocoons of the silkworms. Extensive laboratory evaluation revealed that she was allergic to silk and her symptoms resolved in three months following discontinuation of her exposure to silk allergens.

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Is month of birth a risk factor for subsequent development of pollen allergy in adults?

A comparison of the date of birth of 1501 adult patients with severe seasonal respiratory allergy (allergic rhinitis or bronchial asthma) due to parietaria, olive, and grass pollens with the expected births within 2,020,420 births in South Greece during the same period, was performed. The relative risk for developing respiratory allergy was characteristically increased in those born in a specific period of time different for each pollen. The relative risk for parietaria was increased (1.47) in those born in March; for olive it was 1.6 for May; 1.2 for April; and 1.4 for March, while the relative risk for grasses was 1.2 in those born in June and July. These findings are indicative of the importance of the month of birth; that is, the early exposure to pollens, for the development of respiratory allergy to certain pollens during adulthood. Because our findings do not directly correlate completely with the aerobiology studies on pollen calculation in Athens' atmosphere, we supposed that other environmental factors, e.g., the local intensity of the first pollination or the influence of weather conditions, may contribute to the final development of respiratory allergy as well. The most impressive finding was the significant influence of the month of birth in the development of respiratory allergy due to parietaria and olive pollens during adulthood.

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