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Evaluation of Water and Its Contaminants
Published in William J. Rea, Kalpana D. Patel, Reversibility of Chronic Disease and Hypersensitivity, Volume 5, 2017
William J. Rea, Kalpana D. Patel
Case Study: A 66-year-old teacher with symptoms of esophagitis with bleeding, vomiting, and multiple food and chemical sensitivities was assessed in the environmental control unit. He had a history of exposure to groundwater that was contaminated by a toxic waste dump site that was used to dispose of a number of solvents and other chemicals. He also had a past history of prostate carcinoma, incontinence secondary to a prostatectomy, hypocomplementemia, and Gilbert's disease. He had experienced esophageal reflux, gastritis, gastric polyps, and chronic constipation. Medications were Zantac, 150 mg, and Reglan, one at bedtime. His family history included parents, who had allergies, and a son and daughter, who had multiple food and chemical sensitivities.
A comprehensive summary of disease variants implicated in metal allergy
Published in Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health, Part B, 2022
Allergic esophagitis is one of the most common presentations of GI hypersensitivity that manifests within the upper segments of the digestive tract (Gómez-Aldana et al. 2019). The condition develops in sensitized individuals who, following antigen ingestion, develop localized allergic inflammation of the esophagus (Kuźmiński et al. 2020). This presentation of GI allergy may be either acute or chronic in nature. Although different immunological mechanisms might lead to emergence of allergic esophagitis, prototypical signs and symptoms are largely conserved between disease endotypes, and include difficulty swallowing, reflux-like sensations, localized pain, and esophageal lesions (Hill and Spergel 2016).