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Two patients with wheat flour coryza who worked in a bakery were examined in the allergic out-patient department at our infirmary. They suffered from typical allergic rhinitis coinciding with employment in an atmosphere filled with wheat flour grain. Intracutaneous reaction tests with extracts of wheat flour were performed with positive results. Prausnitz-Ktistner reaction examination of wheat flour were tried in these two patients and anti-wheat flour reagin antibody were demontrated. In one of them, we discovered the antibody for glutenine which is a protein present in wheat flour. No increase of serum Ig-E level could be found in these two patients. We diagnosed the patients as having wheat flour coryza and recommended that they change their trade. They were treated conservatively without specific hyposensitization therapy.
