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Title

Evaluation of dairy allergy among ulcerative colitis patients

 

Authors

Arezo Judaki1, Mohamadreza Hafeziahmadi2, Atefe Yousefi3, Mohamad Reza Havasian3, Jafar Panahi3, Koroush Sayehmiri4 & Sajjad Alizadeh3*

 

Affiliation

1Department of Gastroenterology, Ilam University of Medical Sciences, Ilam/ Iran; 2Department of Pathology, Ilam University of Medical Sciences, Ilam/ Iran; 3Student Research of Committee, Ilam University of Medical Sciences, Ilam/ Iran; 4Center for Prevention of Psychosocial Trauma, Ilam University of Medical Sciences, Ilam/ Iran

 

Email

pugpub29@gmail.com; *Corresponding author

 

Article Type

Hypothesis

 

Date

Received November 10, 2014; Accepted November 15, 2014; Published November 27, 2014

 

Abstract

The intestine is the largest mucosal organ of the body and also the first line immune homeostasis. Inflammatory bowel disease or IBD is divided into ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease. One of the problems that can occur with UC is dietary allergy to some foods. This study aimed to evaluated the dairy allergy among patients with ulcerative colitis. This study is a Case - control study, that studied 72 patients with Ulcerative Colitis, after recording history of the disease, colonoscopy and confirmed by biopsy and 72 person without history of colitis. In this study, in order to investigate of food allergy, used of the EUROMMUM kit with an international code number DP3420-1601-11E. We used chi-square and Monte Carlo method for analysis of data. Among UC patients, 30.6% mild, 52.8% moderate and 16.6% of cases were in sever stage. 9.7% of them reported a history of abdominal surgery due to disease. According to the chi-square and Monte Carlo methods, dairy allergy (including: cow milk, cow milk UHT and casein) in UC group was significant (P=0.00). This study indicated that there is significant relationship between UC and cow milk, cow milk UHT and casein. UC patients who are allergic to dairy products and the use of dairy products can increase the severity of UC.

 

Keywords

Dairy allergy, ulcerative colitis, cow milk.

 

Citation

Judaki  et al. Bioinformation 10(11): 693-696 (2014)
 

Edited by

P Kangueane

 

ISSN

0973-2063

 

Publisher

Biomedical Informatics

 

License

This is an Open Access article which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. This is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License.