Cross-reactions allergies

Moneret-Vautrin DA Cross-reactions to muscle relaxants in the operating room. Clin Rev Allergy Immunol 1997 15 471. 

Diaz-Perales, A, et al. (1999). Cross-reactions in the latex-fruit S5mdrome. A relevant role of chitinases but not of complex asparagines-linked glycans, J. Allergy. Clin. Immunol., 104, 3, Part 1, 681-687. 

Bisphenol A causes slight skin and eye irritation. It did not cause contact allergy in a guinea pig maximization test. Furthermore, no cross-reactions were detected when animals sensitized to the diglycidyl ether of bisphenol A were tested with bisphenol A. 

Cross-reactivity between molluscan and crustacean shellfish species also occurs rafher frequently. Since tropomyosin is the major allergen in both molluscan and crustacean shellfish, fhe frequency of cross-reactions is not surprising. Allergy to crustacean shellfish is more frequenfly diagnosed than molluscan shellfish allergy (Hefle et ah, 2007). Many of fhese individuals may be at risk of reactions fo molluscan shellfish also. Appropriately, most individuals with either molluscan or crustacean shellfish allergy are advised to avoid all shellfish. 

Mistrello, G., Falagiani, P., Riva, G., Gentili, M., and Antonicelli, L. (1992). Cross-reactions between shellfish and house-dust mite. Allergy 47, 287. 

Because of cross-reactions between cephalosporins and penicillins, caution should be used when prescribing cephalosporins to patients with penicillin allergy. If a patient had anaphylaxis, angioedema, or urticaria fol-... 

Allergies to soy may be a concern for some patients, and there may be a cross-reaction with peanut allergy. Bloating and gas occur, especially in those unaccustomed to soy products. 

Matsushita T, Aoyama K. 1981. Cross reactions between some pesticides and the fungicide benomyl in contact allergy. Industrial Health 19(2) 77-83. 

Sabbah, A., Drouet, M., and Lauret, M.G. 1996. Western blotting or immunoblotting application of the Alastst-Alablot to the study of cross reaction between cow s milk and goat s milk. Allergy Immunol (Paris) 28(10) 335-339. 

Barnett, D., Bonham B., and Howden, M.E.H. 1987. Allergenic cross-reactions among legume foods —An in vitro study. J Allergy Clin Immunol 79 433-438. 

Several authors report coexisting clinical soy allergies in 5%-50% of patients with cows milk allergies (NDA Opinion 2004). It is unclear whether soy allergy represents a de novo sensitization or a cross-reaction of a soy protein component with caseins from milk (Rozenfeld et al. 2002). However, due to homology in the amino acid sequences of soybean and cow s milk allergens of 50%-70%, cross-reactivity is likely (Wilson et al. 2005). 

Local problems can occur, including hypersensitivity reactions (1). In one case of contact allergy, patch-testing was positive with clotrimazole (5% in petroleum), itraconazole (1% in ether), and croconazole (1% in ether) (7). The authors reviewed the possible cross-reactions between the subgroups of imidazoles. 

A female florist from North Germany, who ran a flower shop from 1954 to 1966 had to quit her job because of contact allergy to chrysanthemums and primrose. After a further 12 years she started to suffer occasionally from redness of the pharynx and stomachache after drinking tea prepared from yarrow and camomile. Skin tests were positive to chrysanthemum with cross-reactions to sunflower, arnica, camomile. 

Jung EG, Schwarz K. Photoallergy to jadit with photo cross-reactions to derivative of sulfanilamide. Int Arch Allergy Appl Immunol 1965 27(5) 313-17. 

Hausen, B.M., and P.E. Osmundsen. 1983. Contact allergy to parthenolide in Tanacetum parthenium (L.) Schulz-Bip. (feverfew, Asteraceae) and cross-reactions to related sesquiterpene lactone containing Compositae sjjecies. Acta Derm. Venereal. 63(4) 308-314. 

Chloramphenicol allergy is not uncommon (Robinson 1957), occuring in 15 of 550 patients treated topically. Cross-sensitization to 2,4-dinitrochlorobenzene has been debated but recently found not to occur (Eriksen 1978). Azidamphenicol, used as the antibiotic in a steroid-antibiotic combination cream, caused worsening of eczema under treatment in several cases, but contact allergy was only confirmed in four cases. Cross-reaction to chloramphenicol was found in all but one (Wereide 1975). 

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