Case Report: Anaphylaxis caused by traditional Chinese medicine in a patient with pollinosis

Zhouxian Pan; Mengyuan Zhan; Qing Wang; Jun Liu; Yu Li; Fan Zhi; Jing Zhang; Jinhe Liu; Kai Guan; Liping Wen

doi:10.3389/falgy.2024.1470638

Case Report: Anaphylaxis caused by traditional Chinese medicine in a patient with pollinosis

Front Allergy. 2024 Nov 1:5:1470638. doi: 10.3389/falgy.2024.1470638. eCollection 2024.

Authors

Zhouxian Pan^#^{1

2}, Mengyuan Zhan^#^{1

2}, Qing Wang^{1

2}, Jun Liu^{1

2}, Yu Li^{1

2}, Fan Zhi^{1

2}, Jing Zhang^{1

2}, Jinhe Liu³, Kai Guan^{1

2}, Liping Wen^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Allergy, State Key Laboratory of Complex Severe and Rare Diseases, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China.
² Allergy Department, Beijing Key Laboratory of Precision Medicine for Diagnosis and Treatment of Allergic Diseases, National Clinical Research Center for Dermatologic and Immunologic Diseases, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China.
³ Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Peking Union Medical College, Chinese Academy of Medical Science, Beijing, China.

^# Contributed equally.

Abstract

This case describes a patient with anaphylaxis caused by traditional Chinese medicine. Skin prick test with the traditional Chinese medicine decoction indicates that he was allergic to Suan Zao Ren. The patient had pollinosis and had never taken Suan Zao Ren before, thus we need to think the possibility of pollen food allergy syndrome. This paper also proposes a procedure for doctors to identify the specific culprit of traditional Chinese medicine decoction.

Keywords: Suan Zao Ren; Ziziphus jujuba; anaphylaxis; case report; traditional Chinese medicine.

Publication types

Case Reports