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S J Bentley

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PubMed1984

A psychiatric study of patients with supposed food allergy.

Twenty-three patients who believed they suffered from food allergy were studied at the time of their presentation to an allergy clinic. The presence of organic food hypersensitivity could not be confirmed in 19 who attributed common neurotic symptoms to allergy; this group was almost identical, in terms of psychiatric symptomatology and general characteristics, with a group of new psychiatric out-patient referrals. There was no evidence of psychiatric disorder of food-related psychological symptoms in four patients with proven food-related atopic symptoms. The study failed to find evidence that psychological symptoms might be the result of organic reactions to foods.

Adult↗
PubMed1983

Food hypersensitivity in irritable bowel syndrome.

Food hypersensitivity as a cause of abdominal symptoms was investigated by means of exclusion diets and double-blind food provocation in patients with irritable bowel syndrome. Twenty-seven patients entered the study; nineteen complied with dietary manipulation. Food hypersensitivity as a cause of their presenting symptoms was confirmed by double-blind food provocation in only three patients, who also had evidence of associated atopic disease and positive skin tests to common inhalant allergens. Evidence of minor psychiatric disorder was found in twelve of fourteen patients examined by an independent psychiatrist.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1983

Food allergy.

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Double-Blind Method↗
PubMed1983

Food allergy: how much in the mind? A clinical and psychiatric study of suspected food hypersensitivity.

Objective evidence of food hypersensitivity was sought by the use of exclusion diets and provocation tests in 23 patients who attributed a wide variety of symptoms to food allergy. Hypersensitivity to ingested substances was confirmed in 4, each of whom presented with typical atopic symptoms. None of these had psychological symptoms, but a high incidence of psychiatric disorder was found in patients whose belief that they had a food allergy could not be confirmed.

Adult↗
PubMed1979

Staphylococcal pericarditis with pyopericardium.

Seven previously well patients with acute staphylococcal pericarditis and purulent pericardial effusion are described. All had a septicaemic illness in which worsening heart failure with signs of cardiac tamponade became the major problems of management. Tropical pyomyositis was probably the predisposing illness in four patients. This number of proven cases within an 18-month period suggests that staphylococcal pyopericardium is in a tropical environment probably commoner than realised.

Adolescent↗