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Fruits (Orange · Kiwi · Banana · Peach · Apple)
		Fruits commonly contains allergen substances. If you are allergic to one fruit, you may have reactions to the other fruits It is said that people who are allergic to pollen or ratex need to pay attention to allergy of fruits.
TypeI	Pathogenesis-related protein profilin
Pseudo allergies	serotonin (kiwi only)

List of allergen substances

Article name	Allergen substance	Remarks
orange	Cit s 2
kiwi	Actinidin , Ac d 8 , Ac d 9	It can break down by heating
banana	Mus xp 1	It can break down by heating
peach	Pru p 1 , Pru p 4	It can break down by heating
apple	Mal d 1 , Mal d 4

Symptoms

It mainly causes Oral Allergy Syndrome.

Skin symptoms: urticaria
Mucosal symptoms: itching, swelling in the oral cavity, discomfort
Respiratory symptoms: breathing is painful, throat clogging, asthma
Digestive symptoms: abdominal pain, diarrhea
Anaphylactic shock

Large and strong common antigenicity

It has common antigenicity with fruits, ratex and pollens.

Profilin

Profilin is a protein that contains in all kinds of organisms. The profilin of each creature is very similar, and the common antigenicity between profilins is very strong. This is a troublesome part of fruit allergy.