Drs. P.J. Fell, J. Brostoff, H. O’Donnell, A. O’Connor, E. Charig The association between food intake and illness is in some instances clearly established (1-3), in others suspected but not proven (4-5) and in a whole variety of conditions a possibility. The present difficulty in confirming the link is in those patients where an IgE medicated response is not present or changes in the level…
Continue reading →Journal of Nutritional Medicine (1991) 2, 143-149 ORIGINAL RESEARCH Peter J. Fell MD 1, SALLY SOULSBY SRN 1 AND JONATHAN BROSTOFF MA DMDSc FRCP FRCPath 2 1 Allergy Clinic Deddington Health Centre, Earls Lane, Deddington, Oxon, UK; 2 Department Of Immunology, University College and Middlesex School of Medicine, Arthur Stanley House, 40-50 Tottenham Street, London W1, UK Keywords: irritable bowel syndrome, Alcat Test, elimination diet, food sensitivity. Introduction Patients with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) have chronic…
Continue reading →PETER J. FELL, M.D. (Lond.), Director, Oxford Allergy Centre JONATHAN BROSTOFF, M.A., D.M., D.Sc., FRCP, FRCPath Dept. of Immunology University College & Middlesex School of Medicine, London MARK J. PASULA, Ph.D. Research Director, AMTL Corp., Miami, FL Presented at the 45th Annual Congress of the American College of Allergy and Immunology, Los Angeles, CA: November 12-16, 1988 (published -Annals of Allergy) The Alcat Test reproducibly measures volumetric shifts…
Continue reading →PETER J. FELL, M.D. (London), Director Oxford Allergy Centre DOUGLAS H. SANDBERG, M.D. Professor University of Miami Medical School, Miami, FL MARK J. PASULA, Ph.D. Research Director, AMTL Corp., Miami, FL Presented at the 47th annual meeting of the American College of Allergy & Immunology, November 10-14, 1990, San Francisco, CA. (published – Annals of Allergy.) A pilot study was done to determine if sodium cromoglycate…
Continue reading →P.J.Fell, M.D.(Lond.), Dr. Peter J. Fell is the director of the Oxford Allergy Centre in Oxfordshire, U.K. and also runs the Deddington Allergy Center in Oxfordshire; This Paper was presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Otolaryngic Allergy Association, September 27, 1991; Kansas City, MO by Dr. Fell. Introduction The Alcat Test has been shown to detect and predict those foods most likely to cause a problem in irritable bowel syndrome and subsequent food challenges after…
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