title: Pseudo-food allergy.
abstract: This article covers the background and general concepts pertaining to pseudo-allergy, the problems involved in reaching valid diagnoses of food allergy, the basics of the methodology of double-blind oral provocation, and the emotional, psychologic and recent sociologic factors particularly relevant to the inappropriate attribution of symptoms to allergy.
authors.affiliation: University of Manchester, England.
authors.forename: D J
authors.initials: DJ
authors.lastname: Pearson
mesh_terms: D000529:Complementary Therapies; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004644:Emotions; D005512:Food Hypersensitivity / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy; D006801:Humans; D011602:Psychophysiologic Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis