Can SARS-CoV-2 trigger a food allergy?
O SARS-CoV-2 poderá ser um trigger para desenvolver uma alergia alimentar?
Inês Falcão; Leonor Cunha
Abstract
Due to COVID-19 we are facing unprecedented challenging times in Science, facing the uncertain and the unknown, almost daily facing ourselves with new questions and discoveries. The clinical case described below presents yet another challenge to Science, regarding the interaction between the virus and the immune system. May it be possible that SARS-CoV-2 acts as a trigger factor in a food allergy? The authors report the clinical case of a young man who, upon recovering from COVID-19, developed food allergy to mammalian and poultry meat that he previously tolerated. This pandemic has pushed to the limit the health systems of the entire world, and the fight against it remains far from over. Perhaps only now has it truly begun.
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Os tempos são de pandemia e o percurso da ciência incerto e desconhecido, assim o é desde que apareceu o SARS-CoV-2. O caso clínico a seguir descrito é mais um desafio à Ciência sobre a interação entre o vírus e o sistema imunológico. Será possível que o SARS-CoV-2 seja um fator desencadeante para uma alergia alimentar? Os autores apresentam o caso clínico de um jovem que após recuperar-se da COVID-19 desenvolveu alergia alimentar a carne de mamíferos e aves, que previamente tolerava. Esta pandemia põe à prova diariamente os sistemas de saúde de todo o mundo, e a luta contra este vírus está longe de terminar.
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Submitted date:
03/04/2022
Accepted date:
10/07/2022
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