Food Sensitivity in 100 Asthmatic Children

Abstract

THAT food can cause asthma in children is a fact beyond dispute. The frequency of this sensitivity, as well as its relative importance to recurrent respiratory infection, sensitization to pollens and other environmental allergens, is an entirely different question, concerning which there is considerable difference of opinion.An example of the way allergy is not infrequently treated is provided by the history of an asthmatic child of five years who was recently seen. She had previously been treated in another city and brought with her a typed list, bound in the form of a small book, of the foods that . . .