抄録
It was once considered that many diseases develop only in persons who reached a certain age bracket. However, recently some conditions have appeared more dependent on the living habits or living environment of a person without correlation to aging. Lifestyle-related diseases such as hypertension, diabetes mellitus and hyperlipemia, as well as allergic symptoms, belong to this category. Allergy patients are drastically increasing, and the goal of ultimate curing is often difficult to achieve even though good medicines have been prescribed after proper diagnosis. For the treatment of allergic symptoms, pharmaceuticals such as steroid drugs are often prescribed by medical doctors. However, patients sometimes reject the treatments due to concern about known side effects.
Doctors have also difficulties in applying dosage and usage in prescriptions to individual cases. With such a background, studies to prevent or improve allergic symptoms based on food intake have attracted interest. This paper introduces an example of an animal experiment and a human case in which allergic symptoms were improved through eating mushrooms. We lay particular stress on the benefits of biochemical examination of blood parameters in atopic dermatitis, and dermal inflammation, as well as anti-inflammatory effects on collagenosis and chronic rheumatic arthritis.
