Effect of maternal diet during lactation on development of bovine insulin-binding antibodies in children at risk for allergy.

Background: The role of exposure to dietary antigens through maternal milk is intriguing, because it may result either in immunization or in tolerance. Exposure to cow's milk proteins results in antibody formation against bovine insulin in infants at risk for type 1 diabetes.

Objective: To study the appearance of IgG antibodies to bovine and human insulin in infants with an atopic family history whose mothers followed a cow's milk-free diet during the first 3 months of lactation.

Development of trunk asymmetry in a cohort of children ages 11 to 22 years.

Study Design: A cohort study with a follow-up period of 11 years.

Objectives: To study the growth of the spine with a focus on the development of trunk asymmetry and scoliosis.

Summary Of Background Data: Trunk asymmetry, a common phenomenon at adolescence, can be considered the clinical expression of scoliosis.

A novel wheat gliadin as a cause of exercise-induced anaphylaxis.

Background: Food-dependent, exercise-induced anaphylaxis is a severe form of allergy; the reaction is caused by ingestion of a specific food before exercise. This disorder often escapes diagnosis because neither the ingested food nor the exercise alone induces the symptoms.

Objective: The aim of the study was to characterize the allergens involved in wheat-dependent, exercise-induced anaphylaxis and to describe the clinical outcome in a series of 18 adult patients.

Outpatient use of erythromycin: link to increased erythromycin resistance in group A streptococci.

Resistance to erythromycin in group A streptococci has become an important problem among outpatients in Finland. The prevention of such problems requires information about the relationship between antimicrobial consumption and antimicrobial resistance. Having found considerable variation among health authority areas in the proportions of group A streptococci resistant to erythromycin, we investigated the potential impact of local differences in the consumption of this agent on the development of resistance.

Risk Behavior for Travelers' Diarrhea Among Finnish Travelers.

Background: Contaminated food and drink are the primary sources of traveler's diarrhea (TD). Identification of the characteristics that make a traveler more prone to TD is needed to improve prevention and therapy of this illness. Methods: We evaluated, by questionnaire, the association of dietary errors with TD among 933 adult Finnish tourists vacationing in Morocco.