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Ulcerative colitis is frequently due to food allergy—in at least sixty-six per cent of cases.
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The resemblance between the mucosal lesions of ulcerative colitis and allergic reactions in the skin is quite obvious.
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The pathological findings in early ulcerative colitis are identical with those demonstrated in allergy experiments in humans and animals. Their progression would produce the severe, later lesions.
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The symptoms of ulcerative colitis are easily explainable on an allergic basis.
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Proctoscopic and roentgenological examinations can be used to demonstrate the effect of allergenic foods and the improvement on their withdrawal from the diet.
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Treatment based on allergic considerations has produced results which are better than those based entirely on an infective etiology.
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From the Gastro-Enterological Service of Long Island College Hospital, Brooklyn, N. Y.
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Andresen, A.P.R. Ulcerative colitis — an allergic phenomenon. Jour. D. D. 9, 91–98 (1942). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02996977
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