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Food intolerance and skin prick test in treated and untreated irritable bowel syndrome
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- Issue Date
- 2006-05-12
- Publisher
- WJG Press
- Citation
- World J Gastroenterol. 2006;12(15):2382-2387
- Keywords
- Adult ; Case-Control Studies ; Female ; Food Hypersensitivity/*complications/immunology ; Humans ; Immunoglobulin E/blood ; Irritable Bowel Syndrome/*etiology/*immunology/therapy ; Male ; Middle Aged ; Skin Tests
- Abstract
- AIM: To correlate the clinical features of treated and untreated patients with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) to the results of skin prick test (SPT) for food and inhalant allergens. METHODS: We recruited 105 subjects to form three different target groups: treated group (n=44) undergoing treatment for IBS, untreated group (n=31) meeting the Rome II criteria without treatment for IBS, control group (n=30) with no IBS symptoms. RESULTS: SPT results were different among the three groups in which SPT was positive in 17 (38.6%) treated patients, in 5 (16.1%) untreated patients and in 1 (3.3%) control (P<0.01). The number of positive SPTs was greater in the IBS group than in the control group (P<0.001). The number of positive food SPTs was higher in the treated IBS group than in the untreated IBS group (P=0.03). CONCLUSION: Positive food SPT is higher in IBS patients than in controls.
- ISSN
- 1007-9327 (Print)
- Language
- English
- URI
- http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&dopt=Citation&list_uids=16688829
https://hdl.handle.net/10371/68476
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