Food allergy and food intolerance: specific versus innate immunity.

From: Original Internist | Date: June 1, 2003| Author: Deutsch, Roger Davis | Copyright information

Nomenclature

The concept of allergy was fairly well understood when von Pirquet, an Austrian physician, first introduced the term in 1906. It was intended to denote an altered reaction to a normally innocuous substance. Two decades later allergists in Europe agreed to narrow the definition to apply only to such an altered reaction as may be characterized by an immediate onset of symptoms.

Contemporary physicians recognize a distinction between immediate and d...

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