The danger of ‘yellow dyes’ (tartrazine) to allergic subjects
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I. NEUMAN
Pediatric Allergy Unit, Pediatric Department and Laboratory, and Clinical Laboratories, Hasharon Hospital, Petah-Tiqva, Israel
Dr I. Neuman, Pediatric Allergy Unit, Hasharon Hospital, Petah-Tiqva, Israel.Search for more papers by this authorR. ELIAN
Pediatric Allergy Unit, Pediatric Department and Laboratory, and Clinical Laboratories, Hasharon Hospital, Petah-Tiqva, Israel
Search for more papers by this authorH. NAHUM
Pediatric Allergy Unit, Pediatric Department and Laboratory, and Clinical Laboratories, Hasharon Hospital, Petah-Tiqva, Israel
Search for more papers by this authorP. SHAKED
Pediatric Allergy Unit, Pediatric Department and Laboratory, and Clinical Laboratories, Hasharon Hospital, Petah-Tiqva, Israel
Search for more papers by this authorD. CRETER
Pediatric Allergy Unit, Pediatric Department and Laboratory, and Clinical Laboratories, Hasharon Hospital, Petah-Tiqva, Israel
Search for more papers by this authorCorresponding Author
I. NEUMAN
Pediatric Allergy Unit, Pediatric Department and Laboratory, and Clinical Laboratories, Hasharon Hospital, Petah-Tiqva, Israel
Dr I. Neuman, Pediatric Allergy Unit, Hasharon Hospital, Petah-Tiqva, Israel.Search for more papers by this authorR. ELIAN
Pediatric Allergy Unit, Pediatric Department and Laboratory, and Clinical Laboratories, Hasharon Hospital, Petah-Tiqva, Israel
Search for more papers by this authorH. NAHUM
Pediatric Allergy Unit, Pediatric Department and Laboratory, and Clinical Laboratories, Hasharon Hospital, Petah-Tiqva, Israel
Search for more papers by this authorP. SHAKED
Pediatric Allergy Unit, Pediatric Department and Laboratory, and Clinical Laboratories, Hasharon Hospital, Petah-Tiqva, Israel
Search for more papers by this authorD. CRETER
Pediatric Allergy Unit, Pediatric Department and Laboratory, and Clinical Laboratories, Hasharon Hospital, Petah-Tiqva, Israel
Search for more papers by this authorSummary
Oral administration of 50 mg tartrazine to 122 patients with a variety of allergic disorders caused the following reactions: general weakness, heatwaves, palpitations, blurred vision, rhinorrhoea, feeling of suffocation, pruritus and urticaria.
There was activation of the fibrinolytic pathway as shown by reduction of plas-minogen with high pre-kallikrein and low kallikrein values. Reduction in complement activity (CH50) was seen in three out of sixteen reactions.
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