Table 3.
Specific symptoms reported by Kuwait University students with probable food allergy, categorized by food type
| Symptoms | Food allergy, n |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| milk (n = 15) | egg (n = 18) | peanut (n = 14) | tree nut (n = 14) | fish (n = 5) | shellfish (n = 10) | wheat (n = 7) | sesame (n = 4) | |
| Urticaria | 7 | 14 | 9 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 2 |
| Pruritus | 9 | 15 | 14 | 10 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 2 |
| Angioedema | 8 | 5 | 7 | 8 | 3 | 6 | 3 | 2 |
| Rhinoconjunctivitis | 4 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 1 |
| Respiratory | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Gastrointestinal | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
| Circulatory collapse | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
The student distribution included multiple symptoms for each food type.