Wheat is one of the six foods involved in 90% of all childhood food allergies. According to French epidemiological data, cereal allergy accounts for 10.3% of all adult food allergies, ranking it fifth amongst adult allergies.
Wheat Allergy and Gluten Intolerance are two very similar conditions involving the immune system. They have many symptoms in common, often resulting in confusion over diagnoses. Coeliac disease is an auto-immune disease triggered by gluten, a protein found in wheat.
Patch tests have been proven to be effective in diagnosing non-IgE mediated wheat allergies and wheat allergies in children under two years of age.
Traditional patch tests use whole-wheat flour and only target soluble proteins. In order to increase the sensitivity of patch tests, Diallertest® Wheat contains a mixture of all wheat proteins.
Soybean is found in numerous food ingredients and represents a major source of hidden allergens, currently evaluated at 0.3-0.4% of the general population. In the United States, the prevalence of soybean allergy in the pediatric population stands at 1.1%.3 It is expected that an increase in the frequency of adverse reactions to soybean will be evident given its growing use as a food substitute or ingredient. Symptoms for soybean allergy are the same as other food allergies; however, severe reactions such as anaphylactic shocks are relatively uncommon.
