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Revista Alergia México  Volumen 54, Núm. 5, septiembre-octubre, 2007162
Food allergy mediated by IgG antibodies associated with migraine in
adults
Carlos M. Arroyave Hernández,* Mauro Echevarría Pinto,** Hebert Luis Hernández Montiel***
Artículo original
Revista Alergia México 2007;54(5):162-8
RESUMEN
Introducción: la migraña se presenta con una prevalencia de un 18 %. El tratamiento requiere de medicamentos así como medidas
específicas que estarán de acuerdo con la historia clínica. En algunos pacientes, la IgG específica contra alimentos ha sido mencio-
nada en el mecanismo de ésta, pero el estudio serológico ha sido poco estudiado.
Objetivo: el motivo del presente trabajo fue investigar la presencia de anticuerpos tipo IgG contra alimentos en pacientes con migraña
refractaria al tratamiento tradicional.
Material y métodos: se investigó la presencia de anticuerpos séricos de tipo IgG contra 108 alimentos usando una prueba inmu-
noenzimática. Se incluyeron 56 pacientes con migraña y un grupo control sin el padecimiento.
Resultados: además de que la presencia de anticuerpos de tipo IgG contra alimentos fue estadísticamente significativa en los
pacientes con migraña cuando se compararon con el grupo control, la eliminación del alimento en la dieta controló la migraña, no
habiendo necesidad del uso de medicamentos.
Conclusión: de acuerdo con los resultados obtenidos, la presencia de anticuerpos de tipo IgG contra alimentos, debería de ser
incluida en el estudio de pacientes con migraña.
Palabras clave: migraña, alergia, alimentos, anticuerpos IgG.
ABSTRACT
Background: Migraine occurs with a high prevalence of 18 per cent. Management requires a tailored regimen of pharmacological
and other measures based on individual clinical history. In some patients, allergen-specific IgG has been suspected to be involved in
their mechanism, however, serological methods to investigate such possibility, are seldomly used.
Objective: The aim of this study was to investigate allergen-specific IgG in serum of patients with migraine refractory to traditional
treatment.
Material and methods: Serum antibodies to specific 108 food allergens were measured by enzyme immunoassay from 56 patients
with migraine and a control group without migraine.
Results: In addition to statistical significant differences in the number of positives for IgG food allergens between patients with migraine
and a controlled group, elimination diets successfully control the migraine without the need of medications.
Conclusion: According to the results obtained, serum IgG antibodies to common food should be investigated in patients with migraine.
Key words: Food allergy, migraine, IgG antibodies.
* Centro de Inmunología y Alergias, Querétaro, Querétaro,
México.
** Instituto Nacional de la Nutrición.
*** Laboratorio de Neurobiología y Bioingeniería Celular, Fa-
cultad de Medicina de la Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro,
Querétaro, México.
Correspondencia: Dr. Carlos M. Arroyave Hernández. Calle Ha-
cienda Buenavista núm. 322-12, colonia Jardines de la Hacienda,
CP 76180, Querétaro, Querétaro, México.
Recibido: agosto, 2007. Aceptado: agosto, 2007.
La versión completa de este artículo también está disponible en
internet: www.revistasmedicasmexicanas.com.mx
I
t is estimated that 18 % of women and 6 %
of the men have migraine, thus making it a
disease of high importance.1
As many as 30
million Americans suffer migraine headaches
and the impact on patients and their families can be
tremendous.Also, treatment can present diagnostic
and therapeutic challenges. Often, this condition
significantly impairs the quality of life and places
a large burden on health care resources. Treatment
choice for acute migraine should be based on the
severity and frequency of headaches, associated
symptoms, comorbidities, and a complete good
clinical history.2-4
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Many years ago, the association of pain and/or
inflammation with certain clinical signs, led the
physician to suspect a connection between the
immunological mechanism and headaches or mi-
graine.5
In addition, immediate food allergy has
been known to produce systemic and organ specific
dysfunction that can be IgE mediated. Lately, few
investigations reported headache and migraine as
a late allergy reaction mediated by IgG, although
the majority of severe reactions are mediated via
IgE.5-8
Migraine epidemiological studies showed that
prevalence of this disease is consistently less pre-
valent in Asians than in Caucasian populations.
Migraine in Asians is only 20-50% of that reported
in Caucasians.9
Migraine is a painful, incapacitating disease that
affects a significant portion of the adult population
with a substantial economic burden on society. The
Disorder is characterized by recurrent unilateral
headaches, usually accompanied by nausea, vomi-
ting, photophobia and/or phonofobia. A number
of hypotheses have emerged to explain the specific
causes of migraine. Current theories suggest a
primary central nervous system event. It has been
suggested that a mutation in a calcium gene channel
renders the individual to be more sensitive towards
environmental factors, resulting in a wave of cortical
spreading depression when the attacks are initiated,
and with a positron emission tomography, an active
region has been pointed out in the brainstem.10
Food hypersensitivity encompasses any immu-
nologically mediated adverse reaction following the
ingestion of a specific food. Despite the confusion
and controversy surrounding this area, significant
research advances have been made over the past 30
years defining epidemiologic, pathophysiologic, and
clinical features of this food reactions.10-14
Evidence that foods are involved in headache pre-
cipitating factors have been supported on the basis
of change in immunoglobulin or complement slit
product levels during an attack15-17
local mast cells
degranulation,18,19
plasma histamine levels,19,20
circu-
lating immune complexes and T cells increase after
local food challenge accompanied by an increase in
interluekin-2 release.21
Finally, it has been found that
disturbances of prostaglandin D2 and F2 may alter
cerebral blood flow22
and decreases TNF-RI.23
There has been an increase in the prevalence of
food allergy, asthma and severe reactions to foods in
the past decade. The reason for this increase is unk-
nown and despite the potential for a lethal outcome,
no treatments or therapies are available. In the ma-
jority of the patients, an IgE mediated food allergy
mechanism has been established, however there are
cases in which IgG-reactive food elimination diets
are helpful in patients with migraine.24-27
In the last years, we have focused our investiga-
tion on the involvement of IgG antibodies to food,
as responsible of a late allergic reaction.
MATERIAL AND METHODS
In the present investigation, patients with recurrent
attacks of migraine (at least one a month) were
clinically evaluated by a neurologist and received
medical treatment, as well as, typical exclusion diets
were included. Since migraine is present in patients
with other pathology, patients with known aller-
gies, hormonal, neurological or metabolic diseases
were excluded. Simultaneously individuals with
no allergies, of the same age and gender of as that
of the, patients were included as a control group.
Venous blood samples were obtained to measure
food reactivity in an immunoassay using as a se-
cond antibody anti human IgG. The immunoassay
analysis was made in Immuno Laboratories, Fort
Lauderdale, FL., U.S.A., against 108 food allergens
(table 1) that were previously investigated to be the
most reactive in different human diseases associated
with or without IgE mediated allergy.
Patient’s evaluation was made with clinical his-
tory, and skin test for IgE mediated allergy.After IgG
positive reactivity was reported, all patients were
under specific exclusion diet for six months, accor-
ding to their individual’s results, and a specific diet
was given to all patients according to test results.At
the end of the study, patients were asked to resume
consumption of the foods they had been advised
to eliminate in order to assess the effects of their
Food allergy mediated by IgG antibodies associated with migraine in adults
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reintroduction. During the diet phase of the present
investigation, patients were not allowed to take
concomitant medication, mainly painkillers. Any
patient withdrawing from the diet, were excluded.
Statistical analysis was made with the two-sample
t test and the Wilcox on Mann-Whitney test.
RESULTS
There were a total of 56 patients with migraine, along
with their respective controls. Their age ranged
between 35 and 56 years old. Forty-eight patients
were females. Clinical history from fourteen patients
showed family history of allergies without migraine.
IgE skin test was positive in 5 patients for inhalants
for tree to four different foods. Immunoassay for
food IgG was found in all patients investigated
and in fifteen (26%) of the control individuals. The
number of positive IgG food reactivity in a single
patient was between six and thirty, in contrast with
the control group with none or a maximum of four.
Positive reactivity for fruits and vegetables are seen
in table 2 and for other foods in table 3. The highest
reactivity of the patients group was observed with
egg, cheese, cow’s milk, yeast bakers, wheat, tomato,
casein, pork and beans, and for the control group
reactions included cow’s milk, cheese and egg.
Some of the patients had reactivity with more
than seven foods up to thirty. Food reactivity for this
group can be seen in table 4. In this group, banana,
bean, cheese, egg, cow’s milk, mushroom, sugar
yeast and wheat, were the most reactive. In three
cases, the IgG was similar positive to their reaction to
the IgE skin test. However, the number of reactivity
in each case was greater for IgG than for IgE.
After one to six months with the specific diet,
43 of the patients reported no migraine; in four pa-
tients, decrease of the intensity and frequency was
observed and no changes were seen in nine. When
statistical analysis was made between patients and
control group for the IgG food reactivity, results
showed a p < 0.01.
Table 1. Standard food sensitivity immuno assay for IgG
Alfalfa Cherry Herring Parsley Shrimp
Almond Chicken Lamb Pea Snapper
Amaranth Chili pepper Lemon Peach Sole
Apple Cinnamon Lentil Peanut Soybean
Asparagus Clam Lettuce Pecan Spinach
Avocado Clove Lime Pepper b/w Strawberry
Banana Cocoa-chocolate Lobster Pepper green Sugar
Barley Coconut Mackerel Perch Sunflower
Bean, kidney Cod Milk cow Pineapple Tangerine
Beef Coffee Milk goat Plum Tea
Brazil nut Corn Millet Potato Tomato
Broccoli Cranberry Mung bean Potato sweet Tuna
Brussels sprout Crab Mushroom Pork Turkey
Buckwheat Egg Mustard Pumpkin Walnut
Cabbage Eggplant Nut meg Radish Wheat
Cantaloupe Flounder Oat Rape seed White fish
Carrot Garlic Olive Rice Yam
Casein Ginger Onion Rye Yeast bakers
Cashew nut Grape Orange Sage Yeast brewer
Celery Grapefruit Oregano Salmon Zucchini
Cauliflower Haddock Oyster Sesame
Cheese Halibut Papaya Scallops
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Food allergy mediated by IgG antibodies associated with migraine in adults
DISCUSSION
Patients with recurrent migraine refractory to tra-
ditional treatment were studied for the presence
for IgG food reactive antibodies. After one month
of elimination diet, as per test results, 43 out of 65
patients showed a complete remission of their migra-
ine. The association of migraine and food allergy has
been known for many years mainly through an IgE
mediated mechanism.5,22-29
However, the association
of food IgG mediated disease has been supported by
few studies.6,29-33
In the present study, disease activity
was controlled by elimination diet.
Even though the IgG assay was done in the USA,
we believe that food allergens between both coun-
tries are similar. Today, the origin of many food items
Table 2. Positive serum IgG fruit and vegetables reactivity from 56 patients with migraine and 56 non-migraine control group
Food P C Food P C Food P C
Alfalfa 3 0 Cranberry 2 0 Peach 2 0
Apple 0 2 Eggplant 2 0 Pineapple 1 0
Asparagus 2 0 Garlic 4 1 Plum 1 0
Avocado 4 0 Grape 3 2 Potato 3 0
Banana 8 1 Lemon 11 3 Pumpkin 2 0
Bean, kidney 14 3 Lettuce 3 0 Radish 3 0
Broccoli 2 0 Lime 5 0 Soybean 5 2
Brussels sprouts 4 0 Mung bean 1 0 Spinach 6 0
Cabbage 2 0 Mushroom 9 1 Strawberry 7 1
Cantaloupe 4 0 Nutmeg 2 0 Tangerine 4 0
Carrot 2 0 Onion 2 2 Tomato 17 2
Cauliflower 3 0 Orange 12 1 Zucchini 2 0
Cherry 2 0 Papaya 2 0 Cherry 2 0
Chili pepper 13 2 Parsley 1 0 Chili pepper 13 2
Corn 11 2 Pea 1 0 Corn 11 2
P = patient, C = control.
Table 3. Positive serum IgG food reactivity others than fruit and vegetables from 56 patients with migraine and 56 non-migraine
control group
Food P C Food P C Food P C
Amaranth 3 0 Herring 2 0 Pork 14 2
Beef 2 0 Lamb 3 0 Rice 9 1
Brazil nut 2 0 Lentil 1 0 Rye 6 1
Casein 15 2 Lobster 2 0 Salmon 1 1
Cashew nut 3 0 Mackerel 2 0 Sesame 4 0
Cheese 24 4 Milk cow 24 4 Shrimp 10 2
Chicken 3 0 Milk goat 8 2 Snapper 2 0
Cinnamon 1 0 Millet 1 0 Sugar 5 1
Clove 1 0 Mustard 6 0 Sunflower 1 0
Cocoa/Chocolate 8 2 Oat 4 0 Tuna 2 0
Coffee 6 2 Oregano 2 0 Walnut 4 1
Crab 4 0 Oyster 2 0 Wheat 19 2
Egg 26 3 Peanut 11 2 White fish 4 1
Ginger 2 0 Pepper b/w 8 2 Yeast bakers 21 2
Pepper green 3 1 Yeast brewer 12 1
P = patient, C = control.
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in México is not easily identified due to the fact that
we can find in any market, meat, milk or vegetables
produced in other countries. Therefore, we accept
test results without any reservation, although the
optimum method of determining a food allergy is by
challenging with fresh food,34
however it’s accepted
that allergy testing can be done with commercial
available purified allergens.
During review of clinical history, we found six
patients with migraine and colitis. After a month
of specific diet, improvement of both diseases
was observed. This result was expected, since it is
known that there exists an association of gastroin-
testinal disease and IgG food hypersensibility.35-37
Furthermore, food-specific IgG4 antibodies have
been demonstrated to be associated with irritable
bowel syndrome. The exclusion diet based on IgG4
titers, improved symptoms and is associated with
improvement of rectal compliance. In one of the
investigations, after 12 weeks diet, a reduction in
symptom score was observed in comparison with
patients in a sham diet.36
In addition, research done
in dogs, showed that these animals with gastroin-
testinal disease had more food allergen-specific IgG
compared to normal and atopic dogs.38
The positive IgG food reactivity seen in the con-
trol group is probably difficult to explain, since they
did not have any disease or allergy. However, the
presence of food reactive IgG antibodies has been
observed in healthy individuals. 39-41
The presence of several reactivities in a serum
sample, such as in eleven patients found in the
present investigation (Table 4), could be explained
due to a cross reactivity with fruit and/or vegeta-
bles. This cross reactivity has been demonstrated by
immunoblot and immunodot-blot analysis, as well
as prick skin test with peanut, soybean, lima bean,
pea, and garbanzo bean.37
Multiple sensitizations
to other vegetable products have been observed,
whether they come from the same family or taxo-
nomically unrelated, although they do not always
share the same clinical expression. The basis of this
Table 4. Positive serum IgG food reactivity from eleven patients having between seven and thirty food reactivities
Food P Food P Food P Food P
Alfalfa 7,11* Clove 8 Mushroom 2,4,5,7,8,11 Rye 1,3,7,8
Amaranth 5 Coffee 9,11 Mung bean 2 Sage 8
Asparagus 1,8,11 Corn 1,10 Mustard 8 Sesame 1,8,11
Avocado 9,10 Crab 6 Nut meg 8 Shrimp 6
Banana 1,2,3,6,7,11 Cranberry 4,7 Oat 1,7 Spinach 1,2,3,11
Barley 1 Egg 1,2,4,5,6,8,10 Onion 7 Snapper 2
Bean 4,7,8,10,11 Eggplant 7 Orange 7 Sunflower 8
Broccoli 3 Garlic 7,11 Oregano 8 Sugar 2,4,5,8,11
Brussels sprouts 3,9 Ginger 8 Oyster 8 Tomato 7,11
Cabbage 3 Grape 7 Papaya 3 Tangerine 7,8
Cantaloupe 7 Herring 2 Pepper b/w 1,2,5,7 Tuna 2
Carrot 7 Lemon 7,8,10 Pork 9 Yeast
bakers
2,4,6,7,8,10,11
Cashew nut 1,7 Lettuce 1,7 Pineapple 2 Yeast
brewer
2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,11
Cauliflower 3 Lime 7,8 Parsley 3 Wheat 3,7,8,9,10,11
Celery 7 Lentil 2 Pea 7 Walnut 9
Cheese 1,3,4,5,6,8,9,10 Lobster 6 Peach 7 Zucchini 11
Cherry 3 Mackerel 2 Plumb 7
Chili pepper 9 Milk cow 1,2,3,8,9,10 Pumpkin 2
Cinnamon 8 Milk goat 1,4,11 Rice 1
Millet 1 Radish 3,7
Every number represents a patient.
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association among vegetables foods and with po-
llens lies within the existence of antibodies against
“pan allergens”, which determine cross-reactivity.
Pan allergens are proteins spread throughout the
vegetable kingdom, implicated predominantly in
biological functions such as defense mechanism,
and consequently, their sequences and structures
are highly conserved. They are thermostable and
resistance to pepsin digestion, which makes them
potent food allergens, thus explaining the frequent
development of systemic symptoms.42-44
Other important molecules for cross reactivity are
the profilins. They are proteins highly conserved in
all eukaryotic organisms and present in pollens and
a wide variety of vegetable foods.44-46
However, clini-
cal relevance of cross-reactions based on recognition
of carbohydrate determinants and profilin is limited
to the population of food or pollen-allergic patients.
For selected food allergies however, N-glycans and
in specific profiling are of potential clinical rele-
vance.39
Finally, many plant derived agents contain
proteins with tree pollen allergy.42-45
Epitope binding patterns of specific food aller-
gens might help to predict which patients will most
likely outgrow their food allergy or which patients
are clinically tolerant. This may also help to avoid
food challenges, which carry a risk for a potentia-
lly severe outcome. Research in this field is on the
way, showing that IgE and IgG4 epitope mapping
by microarray immunoassay revealed diversity of
immune response to a specific allergen.46,47
Cross reactivity has been observed between
pollens and vegetables as well as fruit, therefore,
before elimination diet, oral challenges may be
important, because has been found that the clinical
evaluations and testing was not enough to identify
such reactivity.48,49
Characterization of cross-reactivity allergens
facilitates the study of factors determining clinical
relevance of cross-reactivity and possible efficacy
of immunotherapy in food allergy. Prescribing
therapeutic elimination diets in patients with fruit
allergy should include recommendations on which
other foods of the same family or group may be
safely consumed.
The exclusion of foods to which patients have IgG
antibodies might be beneficial in controlling migra-
ines, despite the fact that these antibodies are also
present in healthy individuals. The observations that
adherence to the diet is critical in determing a good
outcome, it is further supported by the observation
that the presence of migraine returns few days after
the patient reintroduced the food eliminated before
the time established in the protocol.
In summary, results from this investigation,
support the hypothesis that migraines can be
associated with late immunological mechanisms
mediated by IgG. Diagnosis was made through an
immunoassay and elimination diet of the positive
foods, successfully controlling migraines without
medication. We suggest that testing for IgG-specific
food appears to be helpful in the evaluation of pa-
tients with migraine that is refractory to traditional
treatment.
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  • 1. Revista Alergia México  Volumen 54, Núm. 5, septiembre-octubre, 2007162 Food allergy mediated by IgG antibodies associated with migraine in adults Carlos M. Arroyave Hernández,* Mauro Echevarría Pinto,** Hebert Luis Hernández Montiel*** Artículo original Revista Alergia México 2007;54(5):162-8 RESUMEN Introducción: la migraña se presenta con una prevalencia de un 18 %. El tratamiento requiere de medicamentos así como medidas específicas que estarán de acuerdo con la historia clínica. En algunos pacientes, la IgG específica contra alimentos ha sido mencio- nada en el mecanismo de ésta, pero el estudio serológico ha sido poco estudiado. Objetivo: el motivo del presente trabajo fue investigar la presencia de anticuerpos tipo IgG contra alimentos en pacientes con migraña refractaria al tratamiento tradicional. Material y métodos: se investigó la presencia de anticuerpos séricos de tipo IgG contra 108 alimentos usando una prueba inmu- noenzimática. Se incluyeron 56 pacientes con migraña y un grupo control sin el padecimiento. Resultados: además de que la presencia de anticuerpos de tipo IgG contra alimentos fue estadísticamente significativa en los pacientes con migraña cuando se compararon con el grupo control, la eliminación del alimento en la dieta controló la migraña, no habiendo necesidad del uso de medicamentos. Conclusión: de acuerdo con los resultados obtenidos, la presencia de anticuerpos de tipo IgG contra alimentos, debería de ser incluida en el estudio de pacientes con migraña. Palabras clave: migraña, alergia, alimentos, anticuerpos IgG. ABSTRACT Background: Migraine occurs with a high prevalence of 18 per cent. Management requires a tailored regimen of pharmacological and other measures based on individual clinical history. In some patients, allergen-specific IgG has been suspected to be involved in their mechanism, however, serological methods to investigate such possibility, are seldomly used. Objective: The aim of this study was to investigate allergen-specific IgG in serum of patients with migraine refractory to traditional treatment. Material and methods: Serum antibodies to specific 108 food allergens were measured by enzyme immunoassay from 56 patients with migraine and a control group without migraine. Results: In addition to statistical significant differences in the number of positives for IgG food allergens between patients with migraine and a controlled group, elimination diets successfully control the migraine without the need of medications. Conclusion: According to the results obtained, serum IgG antibodies to common food should be investigated in patients with migraine. Key words: Food allergy, migraine, IgG antibodies. * Centro de Inmunología y Alergias, Querétaro, Querétaro, México. ** Instituto Nacional de la Nutrición. *** Laboratorio de Neurobiología y Bioingeniería Celular, Fa- cultad de Medicina de la Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro, Querétaro, México. Correspondencia: Dr. Carlos M. Arroyave Hernández. Calle Ha- cienda Buenavista núm. 322-12, colonia Jardines de la Hacienda, CP 76180, Querétaro, Querétaro, México. Recibido: agosto, 2007. Aceptado: agosto, 2007. La versión completa de este artículo también está disponible en internet: www.revistasmedicasmexicanas.com.mx I t is estimated that 18 % of women and 6 % of the men have migraine, thus making it a disease of high importance.1 As many as 30 million Americans suffer migraine headaches and the impact on patients and their families can be tremendous.Also, treatment can present diagnostic and therapeutic challenges. Often, this condition significantly impairs the quality of life and places a large burden on health care resources. Treatment choice for acute migraine should be based on the severity and frequency of headaches, associated symptoms, comorbidities, and a complete good clinical history.2-4
  • 2. 163Revista Alergia México  Volumen 54, Núm. 5, septiembre-octubre, 2007 Many years ago, the association of pain and/or inflammation with certain clinical signs, led the physician to suspect a connection between the immunological mechanism and headaches or mi- graine.5 In addition, immediate food allergy has been known to produce systemic and organ specific dysfunction that can be IgE mediated. Lately, few investigations reported headache and migraine as a late allergy reaction mediated by IgG, although the majority of severe reactions are mediated via IgE.5-8 Migraine epidemiological studies showed that prevalence of this disease is consistently less pre- valent in Asians than in Caucasian populations. Migraine in Asians is only 20-50% of that reported in Caucasians.9 Migraine is a painful, incapacitating disease that affects a significant portion of the adult population with a substantial economic burden on society. The Disorder is characterized by recurrent unilateral headaches, usually accompanied by nausea, vomi- ting, photophobia and/or phonofobia. A number of hypotheses have emerged to explain the specific causes of migraine. Current theories suggest a primary central nervous system event. It has been suggested that a mutation in a calcium gene channel renders the individual to be more sensitive towards environmental factors, resulting in a wave of cortical spreading depression when the attacks are initiated, and with a positron emission tomography, an active region has been pointed out in the brainstem.10 Food hypersensitivity encompasses any immu- nologically mediated adverse reaction following the ingestion of a specific food. Despite the confusion and controversy surrounding this area, significant research advances have been made over the past 30 years defining epidemiologic, pathophysiologic, and clinical features of this food reactions.10-14 Evidence that foods are involved in headache pre- cipitating factors have been supported on the basis of change in immunoglobulin or complement slit product levels during an attack15-17 local mast cells degranulation,18,19 plasma histamine levels,19,20 circu- lating immune complexes and T cells increase after local food challenge accompanied by an increase in interluekin-2 release.21 Finally, it has been found that disturbances of prostaglandin D2 and F2 may alter cerebral blood flow22 and decreases TNF-RI.23 There has been an increase in the prevalence of food allergy, asthma and severe reactions to foods in the past decade. The reason for this increase is unk- nown and despite the potential for a lethal outcome, no treatments or therapies are available. In the ma- jority of the patients, an IgE mediated food allergy mechanism has been established, however there are cases in which IgG-reactive food elimination diets are helpful in patients with migraine.24-27 In the last years, we have focused our investiga- tion on the involvement of IgG antibodies to food, as responsible of a late allergic reaction. MATERIAL AND METHODS In the present investigation, patients with recurrent attacks of migraine (at least one a month) were clinically evaluated by a neurologist and received medical treatment, as well as, typical exclusion diets were included. Since migraine is present in patients with other pathology, patients with known aller- gies, hormonal, neurological or metabolic diseases were excluded. Simultaneously individuals with no allergies, of the same age and gender of as that of the, patients were included as a control group. Venous blood samples were obtained to measure food reactivity in an immunoassay using as a se- cond antibody anti human IgG. The immunoassay analysis was made in Immuno Laboratories, Fort Lauderdale, FL., U.S.A., against 108 food allergens (table 1) that were previously investigated to be the most reactive in different human diseases associated with or without IgE mediated allergy. Patient’s evaluation was made with clinical his- tory, and skin test for IgE mediated allergy.After IgG positive reactivity was reported, all patients were under specific exclusion diet for six months, accor- ding to their individual’s results, and a specific diet was given to all patients according to test results.At the end of the study, patients were asked to resume consumption of the foods they had been advised to eliminate in order to assess the effects of their Food allergy mediated by IgG antibodies associated with migraine in adults
  • 3. Revista Alergia México  Volumen 54, Núm. 5, septiembre-octubre, 2007164 reintroduction. During the diet phase of the present investigation, patients were not allowed to take concomitant medication, mainly painkillers. Any patient withdrawing from the diet, were excluded. Statistical analysis was made with the two-sample t test and the Wilcox on Mann-Whitney test. RESULTS There were a total of 56 patients with migraine, along with their respective controls. Their age ranged between 35 and 56 years old. Forty-eight patients were females. Clinical history from fourteen patients showed family history of allergies without migraine. IgE skin test was positive in 5 patients for inhalants for tree to four different foods. Immunoassay for food IgG was found in all patients investigated and in fifteen (26%) of the control individuals. The number of positive IgG food reactivity in a single patient was between six and thirty, in contrast with the control group with none or a maximum of four. Positive reactivity for fruits and vegetables are seen in table 2 and for other foods in table 3. The highest reactivity of the patients group was observed with egg, cheese, cow’s milk, yeast bakers, wheat, tomato, casein, pork and beans, and for the control group reactions included cow’s milk, cheese and egg. Some of the patients had reactivity with more than seven foods up to thirty. Food reactivity for this group can be seen in table 4. In this group, banana, bean, cheese, egg, cow’s milk, mushroom, sugar yeast and wheat, were the most reactive. In three cases, the IgG was similar positive to their reaction to the IgE skin test. However, the number of reactivity in each case was greater for IgG than for IgE. After one to six months with the specific diet, 43 of the patients reported no migraine; in four pa- tients, decrease of the intensity and frequency was observed and no changes were seen in nine. When statistical analysis was made between patients and control group for the IgG food reactivity, results showed a p < 0.01. Table 1. Standard food sensitivity immuno assay for IgG Alfalfa Cherry Herring Parsley Shrimp Almond Chicken Lamb Pea Snapper Amaranth Chili pepper Lemon Peach Sole Apple Cinnamon Lentil Peanut Soybean Asparagus Clam Lettuce Pecan Spinach Avocado Clove Lime Pepper b/w Strawberry Banana Cocoa-chocolate Lobster Pepper green Sugar Barley Coconut Mackerel Perch Sunflower Bean, kidney Cod Milk cow Pineapple Tangerine Beef Coffee Milk goat Plum Tea Brazil nut Corn Millet Potato Tomato Broccoli Cranberry Mung bean Potato sweet Tuna Brussels sprout Crab Mushroom Pork Turkey Buckwheat Egg Mustard Pumpkin Walnut Cabbage Eggplant Nut meg Radish Wheat Cantaloupe Flounder Oat Rape seed White fish Carrot Garlic Olive Rice Yam Casein Ginger Onion Rye Yeast bakers Cashew nut Grape Orange Sage Yeast brewer Celery Grapefruit Oregano Salmon Zucchini Cauliflower Haddock Oyster Sesame Cheese Halibut Papaya Scallops Hernández Velázquez L y Segura Méndez NH
  • 4. 165Revista Alergia México  Volumen 54, Núm. 5, septiembre-octubre, 2007 Food allergy mediated by IgG antibodies associated with migraine in adults DISCUSSION Patients with recurrent migraine refractory to tra- ditional treatment were studied for the presence for IgG food reactive antibodies. After one month of elimination diet, as per test results, 43 out of 65 patients showed a complete remission of their migra- ine. The association of migraine and food allergy has been known for many years mainly through an IgE mediated mechanism.5,22-29 However, the association of food IgG mediated disease has been supported by few studies.6,29-33 In the present study, disease activity was controlled by elimination diet. Even though the IgG assay was done in the USA, we believe that food allergens between both coun- tries are similar. Today, the origin of many food items Table 2. Positive serum IgG fruit and vegetables reactivity from 56 patients with migraine and 56 non-migraine control group Food P C Food P C Food P C Alfalfa 3 0 Cranberry 2 0 Peach 2 0 Apple 0 2 Eggplant 2 0 Pineapple 1 0 Asparagus 2 0 Garlic 4 1 Plum 1 0 Avocado 4 0 Grape 3 2 Potato 3 0 Banana 8 1 Lemon 11 3 Pumpkin 2 0 Bean, kidney 14 3 Lettuce 3 0 Radish 3 0 Broccoli 2 0 Lime 5 0 Soybean 5 2 Brussels sprouts 4 0 Mung bean 1 0 Spinach 6 0 Cabbage 2 0 Mushroom 9 1 Strawberry 7 1 Cantaloupe 4 0 Nutmeg 2 0 Tangerine 4 0 Carrot 2 0 Onion 2 2 Tomato 17 2 Cauliflower 3 0 Orange 12 1 Zucchini 2 0 Cherry 2 0 Papaya 2 0 Cherry 2 0 Chili pepper 13 2 Parsley 1 0 Chili pepper 13 2 Corn 11 2 Pea 1 0 Corn 11 2 P = patient, C = control. Table 3. Positive serum IgG food reactivity others than fruit and vegetables from 56 patients with migraine and 56 non-migraine control group Food P C Food P C Food P C Amaranth 3 0 Herring 2 0 Pork 14 2 Beef 2 0 Lamb 3 0 Rice 9 1 Brazil nut 2 0 Lentil 1 0 Rye 6 1 Casein 15 2 Lobster 2 0 Salmon 1 1 Cashew nut 3 0 Mackerel 2 0 Sesame 4 0 Cheese 24 4 Milk cow 24 4 Shrimp 10 2 Chicken 3 0 Milk goat 8 2 Snapper 2 0 Cinnamon 1 0 Millet 1 0 Sugar 5 1 Clove 1 0 Mustard 6 0 Sunflower 1 0 Cocoa/Chocolate 8 2 Oat 4 0 Tuna 2 0 Coffee 6 2 Oregano 2 0 Walnut 4 1 Crab 4 0 Oyster 2 0 Wheat 19 2 Egg 26 3 Peanut 11 2 White fish 4 1 Ginger 2 0 Pepper b/w 8 2 Yeast bakers 21 2 Pepper green 3 1 Yeast brewer 12 1 P = patient, C = control.
  • 5. Revista Alergia México  Volumen 54, Núm. 5, septiembre-octubre, 2007166 in México is not easily identified due to the fact that we can find in any market, meat, milk or vegetables produced in other countries. Therefore, we accept test results without any reservation, although the optimum method of determining a food allergy is by challenging with fresh food,34 however it’s accepted that allergy testing can be done with commercial available purified allergens. During review of clinical history, we found six patients with migraine and colitis. After a month of specific diet, improvement of both diseases was observed. This result was expected, since it is known that there exists an association of gastroin- testinal disease and IgG food hypersensibility.35-37 Furthermore, food-specific IgG4 antibodies have been demonstrated to be associated with irritable bowel syndrome. The exclusion diet based on IgG4 titers, improved symptoms and is associated with improvement of rectal compliance. In one of the investigations, after 12 weeks diet, a reduction in symptom score was observed in comparison with patients in a sham diet.36 In addition, research done in dogs, showed that these animals with gastroin- testinal disease had more food allergen-specific IgG compared to normal and atopic dogs.38 The positive IgG food reactivity seen in the con- trol group is probably difficult to explain, since they did not have any disease or allergy. However, the presence of food reactive IgG antibodies has been observed in healthy individuals. 39-41 The presence of several reactivities in a serum sample, such as in eleven patients found in the present investigation (Table 4), could be explained due to a cross reactivity with fruit and/or vegeta- bles. This cross reactivity has been demonstrated by immunoblot and immunodot-blot analysis, as well as prick skin test with peanut, soybean, lima bean, pea, and garbanzo bean.37 Multiple sensitizations to other vegetable products have been observed, whether they come from the same family or taxo- nomically unrelated, although they do not always share the same clinical expression. The basis of this Table 4. Positive serum IgG food reactivity from eleven patients having between seven and thirty food reactivities Food P Food P Food P Food P Alfalfa 7,11* Clove 8 Mushroom 2,4,5,7,8,11 Rye 1,3,7,8 Amaranth 5 Coffee 9,11 Mung bean 2 Sage 8 Asparagus 1,8,11 Corn 1,10 Mustard 8 Sesame 1,8,11 Avocado 9,10 Crab 6 Nut meg 8 Shrimp 6 Banana 1,2,3,6,7,11 Cranberry 4,7 Oat 1,7 Spinach 1,2,3,11 Barley 1 Egg 1,2,4,5,6,8,10 Onion 7 Snapper 2 Bean 4,7,8,10,11 Eggplant 7 Orange 7 Sunflower 8 Broccoli 3 Garlic 7,11 Oregano 8 Sugar 2,4,5,8,11 Brussels sprouts 3,9 Ginger 8 Oyster 8 Tomato 7,11 Cabbage 3 Grape 7 Papaya 3 Tangerine 7,8 Cantaloupe 7 Herring 2 Pepper b/w 1,2,5,7 Tuna 2 Carrot 7 Lemon 7,8,10 Pork 9 Yeast bakers 2,4,6,7,8,10,11 Cashew nut 1,7 Lettuce 1,7 Pineapple 2 Yeast brewer 2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,11 Cauliflower 3 Lime 7,8 Parsley 3 Wheat 3,7,8,9,10,11 Celery 7 Lentil 2 Pea 7 Walnut 9 Cheese 1,3,4,5,6,8,9,10 Lobster 6 Peach 7 Zucchini 11 Cherry 3 Mackerel 2 Plumb 7 Chili pepper 9 Milk cow 1,2,3,8,9,10 Pumpkin 2 Cinnamon 8 Milk goat 1,4,11 Rice 1 Millet 1 Radish 3,7 Every number represents a patient. Hernández Velázquez L y Segura Méndez NH
  • 6. 167Revista Alergia México  Volumen 54, Núm. 5, septiembre-octubre, 2007 association among vegetables foods and with po- llens lies within the existence of antibodies against “pan allergens”, which determine cross-reactivity. Pan allergens are proteins spread throughout the vegetable kingdom, implicated predominantly in biological functions such as defense mechanism, and consequently, their sequences and structures are highly conserved. They are thermostable and resistance to pepsin digestion, which makes them potent food allergens, thus explaining the frequent development of systemic symptoms.42-44 Other important molecules for cross reactivity are the profilins. They are proteins highly conserved in all eukaryotic organisms and present in pollens and a wide variety of vegetable foods.44-46 However, clini- cal relevance of cross-reactions based on recognition of carbohydrate determinants and profilin is limited to the population of food or pollen-allergic patients. For selected food allergies however, N-glycans and in specific profiling are of potential clinical rele- vance.39 Finally, many plant derived agents contain proteins with tree pollen allergy.42-45 Epitope binding patterns of specific food aller- gens might help to predict which patients will most likely outgrow their food allergy or which patients are clinically tolerant. This may also help to avoid food challenges, which carry a risk for a potentia- lly severe outcome. Research in this field is on the way, showing that IgE and IgG4 epitope mapping by microarray immunoassay revealed diversity of immune response to a specific allergen.46,47 Cross reactivity has been observed between pollens and vegetables as well as fruit, therefore, before elimination diet, oral challenges may be important, because has been found that the clinical evaluations and testing was not enough to identify such reactivity.48,49 Characterization of cross-reactivity allergens facilitates the study of factors determining clinical relevance of cross-reactivity and possible efficacy of immunotherapy in food allergy. Prescribing therapeutic elimination diets in patients with fruit allergy should include recommendations on which other foods of the same family or group may be safely consumed. The exclusion of foods to which patients have IgG antibodies might be beneficial in controlling migra- ines, despite the fact that these antibodies are also present in healthy individuals. The observations that adherence to the diet is critical in determing a good outcome, it is further supported by the observation that the presence of migraine returns few days after the patient reintroduced the food eliminated before the time established in the protocol. In summary, results from this investigation, support the hypothesis that migraines can be associated with late immunological mechanisms mediated by IgG. Diagnosis was made through an immunoassay and elimination diet of the positive foods, successfully controlling migraines without medication. We suggest that testing for IgG-specific food appears to be helpful in the evaluation of pa- tients with migraine that is refractory to traditional treatment. REFERENCES 1. Silberstein S. Practice parameter: evidence-based guide- lines for migraine headache (an evidence-based review): report of the Quality Standards Subcommittee of the Ame- rican Academy of Neurology. Neurol 2000;55:754-62. 2. Aukerman G, Knutson D, Miser W. Management of the acute migraine headache. Am Fam Physician 2002;66:2123-30. 3. Pascual J, Leno C. A woman with daily headaches. J Hea- dache Pain 2005;6:91-2. 4. Smetana G. The diagnostic value of historical features in primary headache syndromes: a comprehensive review. Arch Intern Med. 2000;160:2729-37. 5. Empl M, Straube A. The immune system and primary hea- dache syndromes. Anaesthesist 2001;50:783-91. 6. Kniker W. Immunologically mediated reactions to food: state of the art. Ann Allergy 1987;59:60-70. 7. Barnes R, Harvey M, Blears J, Finn R, Johnson P. IgG subclass of human serum antibodies reactive with dietary proteins. Int Arch Allergy Appl Immunol 1986;81:141-7. 8. El Rafei A, Peters S, Harris N, Bellanti J. Diagnostic value of IgG4 measurements in patients with food allergy. Ann Allergy 1989;62:94-9. 9. Stewart W, Lipton R, Liberman J. Variation in migraine prevalence by race. Neurology 1996;47:52-9. 10. Edvinsson L, Uddman R. Neurobiology in primary heada- ches. Brain Res Brain Res Rev 2005;48:438-56. 11. Anderson J. Milestones marking the knowledge of adverse reactions to food in the decade of the 1980s. Ann Allergy 1994;72:143-54. 12. Chandra R, Gill B, Kumari S. Food allergy and atopic di- sease: pathogenesis, diagnosis, prediction of high risk, and prevention. Ann Allergy 1993;71:495-502. Food allergy mediated by IgG antibodies associated with migraine in adults
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