In food allergy, the immune reactions involved can be immunoglobulin (Ig)E-mediated, cell-mediated or both. Symptoms in other target organs are common in cases of IgE-mediated disorders ...

Like food allergy, it also may be either an IgE-mediated or a non-IgE-mediated hypersensitivity reaction. These reactions generally occur after prior development of an immune response to a hapten ...

skin prick testing or specific IgE testing, the researchers classified the food allergy as “physician-confirmed convincing.” Caregivers of children with food allergy (n = 4,734) completed the ...

Gut microbiota present one month after birth are good predictors of egg white allergy later in childhood. Among the three enterotypes found in one month old infants. type 3, which was ...

"Current therapies for food allergy, such as oral immunotherapy or anti-IgE antibodies, are not known to be permanently disease-modifying," says Rima Rachid, MD, a co-author on the paper and ...