Material and Methods
Patients
Patient #816, born in 1991, presented
several anaphylactic reactions after ingesting
diverse cheeses. The most severe shock arose
with the goat cheeses and the last one,
occurring in 2008, required 4 injections of
adrenalin. CM cheeses also caused symptoms
but less severe, ranging from oral syndrome
to asthmatic dyspnoea. The most severe
reaction (asthma) with CM cheeses arose
after the ingestion of Raclette (melted cow’s
cheese of Swiss origin). As a child, he was
never diagnosed allergic to CM. The tests are
positive for GM (SPT: weal of 6 mm; IgE >
100 kUA.L
-1
in 2008) and for CM (SPT: weal
of 3 mm, IgE 3.24 kUA.L
-1
in 2008) (Table 2).
Cutaneous tests for cheeses are strongly
positive for Roquefort (sheep’s milk cheese)
with a weal of 15 mm but also for CM cheeses
such as Camembert (weal of 6 mm) and
Raclette (weal of 10 mm)