This is something that we do not want to know but it happen.
In this world there are people who can be allergic to their environment like pollen, cat's fur, grass, chicken, fish, sea food and many other things.
This report is the first time where a Malaysian girl is allergic to Birdnest.
Found at:http://www.fujita-hu.ac.jp/JSCD/all_folder/text_folder/edjurnal_vol.12_no.3.html#Vol.12.127-129
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Case report
A Case of an Anaphylaxis of Edible Bird's Nest
Tomoko NAKADA,Takahito YAMANISHI,Kazuhisa FUJIMOTO,Seiji KAWANA
Department of Dermatology, Nippon Medical School, 1-1-5 Sendagi, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8603, Japan
Correspondent : Nakada T
Accepted for publication : May 10, 2005
Abstract
We received report, the case of a 26-year-old female Malaysian student. She ate egg sandwiches and a homemade dessert containing bird's nest. Five minutes later, she developed erythema with facial swelling and nasal obstruaction. We considered that her symptoms were due to an anaphylactic reaction to food.
We performed skin prick tests for egg sandwiches, bird's nest and berries of the matrimony vine. The patient showed a positive reaction to bird's nest. Allergy to bird's nest has not been reported to date in Japan.
However, there is a report indicating that bird's nest in food is the major cause of anaphylactic reaction in children in Singapore.
We presumed that the number of cases of food allergy to bird's nest may increase in Japan as a result of diversification and globalization of eating habits.
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Well this might be due to cave birdnest with contamination from the cave wall secreation????
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