Contact urticaria to commercial fish in atopic persons
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- 1 May 1983
- journal article
- Published by Medical Journals Sweden AB in Acta Dermato-Venereologica
- Vol. 63 (3) , 257-260
- https://doi.org/10.2340/0001555563257260
Abstract
The frequency of contact urticaria provoked by certain fish prepared in the Danish fish industry was examined in 14 persons with atopia. In 71.4% of the test persons we found positive confirmation in a 20-minute scratch patch test to one or more fish species. All occluded patch tests were negative, while 33.9% of the scratch patch tests were positive. It was impossible to make a correlation between positive scratch patch tests and atopic allergen/total IgE. The investigation emphasizes that atopics have a higher frequency of contact urticaria to fish than have non-atopics.Keywords
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