Adverse reactions to wine: think outside the bottleAlicia Armentia
Allergy Section, Rio Hortega Hospital, Valladolid, Spain
Curr Opin Allergy Clin Immunol 8:266-9. 2008
..Symptoms such as facial flushing, asthma and oral allergic swelling and burning (oral syndrome) have been attributed to these contaminants and food additives. Their clinical implications should be known...
- Allergic hypersensitivity to cannabis in patients with allergy and illicit drug users
A Armentia
Direction of Public Health, Investigation, Development and Innovation, Sacyl, Valladolid, Spain
Allergol Immunopathol (Madr) 39:271-9. 2011
..Cannabis is the illicit drug most widely used by young people in high-income countries. Allergy symptoms have only occasionally been reported as one of the adverse health effects of cannabis use...
- Food anaphylaxis in antiphospholipid syndrome and thrombosis
A Armentia
Allergy Section, UMDAI, Hospital Universitario Rio Hortega, Valladolid, Spain
Allergol Immunopathol (Madr) 39:212-21. 2011
..We have observed that some cases of food anaphylaxis were followed by severe thrombosis associated to anticardiolipin antibodies. Food anaphylaxis associated with antiphospholipid syndrome has seldom been published...
- Clinical significance of cross-reactivity between tobacco and latex
A Armentia
Allergy Section, Rio Hortega University Hospital, Valladolid, Spain
Allergol Immunopathol (Madr) 38:187-96. 2010
..We have recently studied IgE response to tobacco in asthmatic patients sensitised to Lolium perenne (Perennial rye grass pollen) and have found that 30% of the tobacco responsive patients also have latex sensitisation...
- Vinegar decreases allergenic response in lentil and egg food allergy
A Armentia
Allergy Section, Rio Hortega University Hospital, Valladolid, Spain
Allergol Immunopathol (Madr) 38:74-7. 2010
..Antacid medication inhibits the digestion of dietary proteins and causes food allergy. A decrease of the gastric pH might enhance the function of digestion and reduce the risk of food allergy...
- Why can patients with baker's asthma tolerate wheat flour ingestion? Is wheat pollen allergy relevant?
A Armentia
Hospital Universitario Rio Hortega, Valladolid, Spain
Allergol Immunopathol (Madr) 37:203-4. 2009
..In the same way, all our asthmatic bakers (135 patients) tolerated the ingestion of bread. Here we try to explain the reason for these surprising observations...
- Tobacco as an allergen in bronchial disease
Alicia Armentia
Sección de Alergia del Hospital Universitario Río Hortega, Valladolid, Spain
Ann Allergy Asthma Immunol 98:329-36. 2007
..Skin testing and sera measurements have verified the existence of tobacco specific IgE. However, the few published studies on this matter report conflicting results concerning their clinical significance...
- Allergy after inhalation and ingestion of cereals involve different allergens in allergic and celiac disease
Alicia Armentia
Allergy and Medicine Sections, Rio Hortega Hospital, Valladolid, Spain
Recent Pat Inflamm Allergy Drug Discov 2:47-57. 2008
..Inhalation and ingestion routes causing cereal allergy seem to involve similar allergens, but, in celiac disease specific response to CM3 may be important...
- Occupational asthma due to grain pests Eurygaster and Ephestia
Alicia Armentia
Seccion de Alergia, Hospital Rio Hortega, Valladolid, Spain
J Asthma 41:99-107. 2004
..We have also studied the allergenic relationship between Anisakis simplex (AS) and these pests...
- ALOX5 promoter genotype and response to montelukast in moderate persistent asthma
Juan J Telleria
Institute of Biology and Molecular Genetics IBGM CSIC, University of Valladolid, Valladolid, Spain
Respir Med 102:857-61. 2008
..It was hypothesized that asthmatic patients with mutant alleles in the leukotriene pathway should not respond to leukotriene receptor antagonists and the concept of a tailored treatment is increasingly supported...
- Dietary intake in patients with asthma: a case control study
Daniel Antonio de Luis
Institute of Endocrinology and Nutrition, Medical School, and Hospital Rio Hortega, University of Valladolid, Valladolid, Spain
Nutrition 21:320-4. 2005
..This case-controlled study investigated differences in dietary intake between a population with and without asthma...
- Wine-induced anaphylaxis and sensitization to hymenoptera venom
Alicia Armentia
N Engl J Med 357:719-20. 2007
- Tolerance mechanisms in response to antigens responsible for baker's asthma in different exposed people
Raphael Panzani
Laboratoire de Recherches, Marseille, France
J Asthma 45:333-8. 2008
..Baker's asthma is among the most common occupational disease. The risk factors and immune features that may be important as predictors of tolerance or development of the disease are not completely understood...
- Wheat lipid transfer protein is a major allergen associated with baker's asthma
Arantxa Palacin
Unidad de Bioquimica, Departamento de Biotecnologia, E T S Ingenieros Agronomos, UPM, Madrid, Spain
J Allergy Clin Immunol 120:1132-8. 2007
..Lipid transfer proteins (LTPs) constitute a family of plant food panallergens, but their role as inhalant and wheat allergens is still unclear...
- Safety of specific sublingual immunotherapy with SQ standardized grass allergen tablets in children
Maria Dolores Ibañez
Servicio de Alergia, Hospital Universitario Nino Jesus, Madrid, Spain
Pediatr Allergy Immunol 18:516-22. 2007
..The subjects recovered completely from the events. In conclusion, in the present study, Grazax was in general tolerated in a paediatric population and considered suitable for further clinical investigations in children...
- Occupational immunologic contact urticaria from pine processionary caterpillar (Thaumetopoea pityocampa): experience in 30 cases
Jesús Vega
Servicio de Dermatología y Facultad de Medicina, Hospital Clinico Universitario, 47001 Valladolid, Spain
Contact Dermatitis 50:60-4. 2004
..Pine-cone or resin collectors, woodcutters, farmers and stockbreeders were the most frequently and severely affected workers...
