Gal d 1-specific IgE predicts allergy to heated egg in Finnish children.
Kati PalosuoAnna Kaarina KukkonenAnna Susanna PelkonenMika Juhani MäkeläPublished in: Pediatric allergy and immunology : official publication of the European Society of Pediatric Allergy and Immunology (2019)
Gal d 1-specific IgE is useful in distinguishing egg-sensitized patients with clinically reactive egg allergy from those tolerant of heated egg. The optimal cutoff point in a Finnish population of 185 children and adolescents was 3.7 kU/L with no significant difference between the younger and older age groups.
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