Food allergies oral allergy syndrome

Amlot, PL., Kemeny, D.M., Zachary, C., Parks, P. and Lessof, M.H., Oral allergy syndrome (OAS) Symptoms of IgE-mediated hypersensitivity to foods. Clin. Allergy, 17, 33,1987. 

Pastorello, E.A. and Qrtolani, C., Oral allergy syndrome. In Food Allergy. Adverse Reactions to Foods and Food Additives. DD Metcalfe, HA Sampson and RA Simon Eds., Blackwell Science, Oxford, p 221, 1997. 

It has sometimes been claimed that SLIT can lead to an increased risk in patients suffering from the oral allergy syndrome. The sublingual administration of pollen allergens which are cross-reacting with food allergens may in fact... 

Causes are largely unclear complaints of food intolerances are often made, but clear evidence of specific and consistent adverse effects is hard to obtain (a distinction is drawn here from genuine dietary allergy which responds to avoidance of the offending item, for instance shellfish, and use of oral sodium cromoglicate). The basis of irritable bowel syndrome rests somewhere in the hinterland of perception of dysfunction, and otherwise normal but exaggerated physiological colonic responses. 

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