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In atopic children food allergy with an immediate onset of symptoms is more often found than in nonatopic children. Sampson et al. observed an itching exanthema in a significant percentage of patients with AE after some hours of oral provocation with food antigens [1]. This has led to the assumption that eczematous skin lesions of atopic individuals might be provoked by food antigens as well. Recently, the expansion of peripheral blood-derived T-cells expressing the cutaneous lymphocyte antigen in response to casein was described for a limited number of patients with milk-induced eczema [2], which points to a possible role of food-specific T lymphocytes in a subgroup of patients with AE.
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Werfel, T., Ahlers, G., Boeker, M., Kapp, A. (1997). Characterization of Specific T-Cell Responses to Food Antigens in Atopic Eczema. In: Ring, J., Behrendt, H., Vieluf, D. (eds) New Trends in Allergy IV. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-60419-5_37
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