title: Allergic reaction to purified pork insulin.
abstract: A 53-year-old white male diabetic experienced an allergic-like reaction while being switched from non-highly-purified to highly purified pork insulins. The patient, after experiencing his second separate allergic response, came to the emergency room and showed marked improvement when returned to the non-highly-purified insulins he had been taking previously.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D003920:Diabetes Mellitus / Q000188:drug therapy; D004342:Drug Hypersensitivity / Q000209:etiology*; D006801:Humans; D007328:Insulin / Q000009:adverse effects*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D013552:Swine
chemical_list: D007328:Insulin