Allergy to lingonberry: A case report

Clinical and Molecular Allergy

Yvelise Barrios¹  Jose M Zubeldia²  Maria L Baeza²  Victor Matheu³ 

[1] Immunology Section, Hospital Universitario de Canarias, Spain;Allergy Service, Hospital Gregorio Maranon, Madrid, Spain;Medical Inflammation Research (MIR), Lund University, Sweden

关键词: food allergy;    cranberry;    urinary tract infections;    lingonberry;   

Others  :  792843
DOI  :  10.1186/1476-7961-2-2

 received in 2003-10-14, accepted in 2004-03-01,  发布年份 2004

【 摘 要 】

Past few years cranberry/lingonberry products have been incorporated as healthy products to the US and European market as prophylaxis of recurrent urinary tract infections in young women as well as in chronic infections in elderly which because of there are many biological activities attributed to the that fruit is a very popular additive to the new diets. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first case of allergy to lingonberry. We speculate that previous exposure to lingonberry products could be sensitising. The symptoms, timing of the episode, positive skin test, IgE-ELISA and western-blot strongly support the role of lingonberry as the causative agent.

【 授权许可】

   
2004 Matheu et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article: verbatim copying and redistribution of this article are permitted in all media for any purpose, provided this notice is preserved along with the article's original URL.

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