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1.Among 1,000 allergic adults 20 per cent complained of past or present rheumatism. Nine per cent had joint changes, usually low grade. Two and seven-tenths per cent found that certain specified foods produced exacerbation or recurrence of rheumatic symptoms. 2.Some members of this group of twenty-seven had no recognizable joint changes between attacks. They included persons with typical intermittent hydrarthrosis of large joints and others with similar involvement of small joints, the latter usually being multiple. 3.Others in the group had low-grade persistent joint changes, with exacerbations. 4.There are points of similarity between this group and those described by Solis-Cohen, Kahlmeter, and by Hench and Rosenberg. The evidence presented would indicate that food allergy may play a part in recurrent joint exacerbations, especially if the patient presents other evidence of clinical allergy. The condition appears to be fairly infrequent, affecting less than three per hundred adults with allergy. However, it affected thirteen per hundred of a group of persons with rheumatism or history of rheumatism who at the same time had evidence of other clinical allergy. |
