A clinical and immunological study of allergy to hen's egg white

Abstract

Various clinical features of 84 atopic patients, with clinical hypersensitivity to egg and positive RAST [radioallergosorbent test] to egg white, were studied. Some of the clinical data were compared with data from a control group of atopic patients without egg allergy. Atopic diseases and certain food allergies in the families of the egg-allergic patients and atopic controls were also studied. This was done to investigate the extent to which differences between the egg allergy group and the atopic control group were reflected in their respective families.