Ortega MJA, Huerta HRE

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ABSTRACT

Food allergy is an adverse reaction that occurs through a specific immune mechanism to a food antigen. There are several hypotheses that attempt to explain the causes of the recent increase in the emergence of food allergies in the population; however, none has been shown to be the only one that can irrefutably explain this increase. The common pathophysiological mechanism between IgE-mediated and non-IgE-mediated forms of food allergy relays in the failure of clinical and immunological tolerance to that food. Currently the approved diagnostic methods are the medical history, the specific IgE determination and the oral challenge test. There are other research methods that can help a more timely and effective diagnosis of the disease.

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