{"id":274,"date":"2013-02-19T15:22:39","date_gmt":"2013-02-19T15:22:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/?p=274"},"modified":"2021-03-30T11:26:21","modified_gmt":"2021-03-30T15:26:21","slug":"popular-foods-pancake-batter-linked-to-pesky-syndromes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/?p=274","title":{"rendered":"Popular foods, pancake batter linked to pesky syndromes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Food ingestion anaphylaxis caused by mites is a newly described syndrome, as detailed by the World Allergy Organization in this month\u2019s Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology. Until recently mite allergy was best recognized as a major cause for allergic rhinitis and asthma via the inhalation of the microscopic mites. Millions of allergy sufferers actually receive allergy shots for this mite allergy. &nbsp;Over the years occasional case reports would appear in the medical literature about airway anaphylaxis; &nbsp;that is, sudden and severe closure of the airways due to an inordinate inhalational dose of mite, such as from spilling a vacuum cleaner bag. But until recently, there had never been reports of anaphylaxis from the ingestion of mites.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The new syndrome has been dubbed oral mite anaphylaxis (OMA), or also \u201cpancake syndrome,\u201d because the primary source of ingested mites is from wheat flour contaminated with mites &#8212; and for some reason, this occurs most often in pancake mix. &nbsp;The syndrome occurs primarily in warm, tropical or sub-tropical locations where temperature and humidity favor the proliferation of mites in certain foods. &nbsp;In some cases the wheat itself was mistakenly assumed to cause the reaction because the presence of mites was not initially suspected. &nbsp;Also, the patient may live in a northern clime, but have a reaction from wheat or flour mix produced in a tropical area.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Unfortunately, cooking does not inactivate the mites in terms of allergenicity. &nbsp;Other common foods that have been implicated are pizza dough, beignets, polenta, grits and scones.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Food ingestion anaphylaxis caused by mites is a newly described syndrome, as detailed by the World Allergy Organization in this month\u2019s Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology. Until recently mite allergy was best recognized as a major cause for allergic rhinitis and asthma via the inhalation of the microscopic mites. Millions of allergy sufferers actually receive allergy shots for this mite allergy. &nbsp;Over the years occasional case reports would appear in the medical literature about airway anaphylaxis; &nbsp;that is, sudden&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/?p=274\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[50,535,536],"class_list":["post-274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-food-allergy","tag-oma","tag-pancake"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=274"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1096,"href":"https:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274\/revisions\/1096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}