Catalog

Food hypersensitivity

4A85.2

Link to WHO Definition

Food hypersensitivity – http://id.who.int/icd/entity/1028477872

Food hypersensitivity reactions are adverse effects of food or food additives that clinically resemble allergy. Food allergy is an adverse reaction to food mediated by an immunologic mechanism, involving specific IgE (IgE-mediated), cell-mediated mechanisms (non-IgE-mediated) or both IgE- and cell-mediated mechanisms (mixed IgE- and non-IgE-mediated).

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