Le “Pollen-food syndrome” à l’olive
Keywords:
Pollen food syndrome, allergy, asthma, olive, pollenAbstract
Background: The pollen-foods syndrome is rare and of difficult diagnosis. The aim is to report a rare case, it’s the four case reported
in the literature.
Case report: A 48-year-old woman presenting with palatal itching and generalized urticaria following ingestion of olive fruit, 5 years after
being diagnosed with olive pollinosis. She did not have a history of other food allergy or urticaria. The prick-test was positive in olive
pollen.The olive pollen specific IgE was positive. The oral provocation test was positive for olives and negative for olive oil. The diagnosis of
"pollen-food olive-olive syndrome” was accepted. Interestingly, in this rare case the patient developed olive fruit allergy in the presence of
olive pollinosis, but did not experience allergic symptoms to fruits other than olive.
Conclusion: In spite its rarity this syndrome should be evoke particularly in our country.
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