Allergic gastric hemorrhage in a case of milk hypersensitivity
Nemes, T.; Mezödy, A.; Kubinyi, K.
Zeitschrift für die Gesamte Innere Medizin und ihre Grenzgebiete 30(22): 741-743
1975
ISSN/ISBN: 0044-2542 PMID: 1082212 Document Number: 85254
In a 50-year-old patient who was repeatedly hospitalised on account of melaena and twice operated without finding an ulcer the cause of the haemorrhage was first unknown. In the sixth massive haemorrhage endoscopically was established a haemorrhagic erosive gastritis which underwent a spontaneous retrogression (gastroscopic control). Since the skin test on milk was positive, it was not thought of an allergic gastritis by milk and a provocation test was carried out twice which had a positive result (haemorrhagic erosive gastritis after instillation of milk into the stomach). With the publication of this case the attention shall be turned to the gastric haemorrhage caused by a nutritive allergy as well as to the diagnostic value of the simply producible provocation test.