food hypersensitivity/potassium

Eating disorders are serious illnesses affecting 1-2% of young women. Patients may present to any doctor, sometimes atypically (e.g. unexplained weight loss, food allergy, infertility, diarrhoea), delaying diagnosis and leading to needless investigation. The cardinal signs are weight loss,

OBJECTIVE This review summarizes the past year's literature regarding the regulation of gastric exocrine and endocrine secretion, both basic science and clinical. RESULTS Gastric acid secretion facilitates the digestion of protein as well as the absorption of iron, calcium, vitamin B12, and certain

While ingesting selected foods and drinks in restaurants, four asthmatic patients reported the sudden onset of severe wheezing and associated anaphylactoid symptoms and signs. Single-blind placebo and potassium metabisulfite (K2S2O5) oral challenges documented asthmatic responses 15 to 30 min after

A 7-month-old boy on an oligoantigenic diet because of multiple food intolerances presented with anorexia, failure to gain weight and severe hypochloremic metabolic alkalosis with hyperreninemia. Clinical symptoms and biochemical abnormalities disappeared after adequate dietary supplementation with

Sulfiting agents have been reported to cause anaphylaxis, asthma, urticaria/angioedema, seizure, nausea, abdominal pain and diarrhea, and death. There is no consensus regarding the pathogenesis of these reactions. The possible role of IgE-mediated mechanism has been debated. To clarify the

BACKGROUND Camel milk is the closest to a human mother's milk. Camel milk is different from other milks, however, having low sugar and cholesterol, high minerals (sodium, potassium, iron, copper, zinc and magnesium, and vitamin C). The milk is considered have medicinal characteristics as well. This

BACKGROUND Serial changes in dietary intake, including specific food groups and nutrients during the first year following Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYGB) are of interest due to surgically induced alterations in meal size, food intolerances present after surgery, and potential nutrient deficiencies.