cytotoxic food testing

Unproven method used to evaluate patients with non- anaphylactic food reactions. Procedure: 1) food extracts are mixed with the patients peripheral blood leukocytes on a glass slide 2) subsequent changes in cellular morphology are interpreted as diagnostic of food allergy Notes: - no proven validity

References

Medical Knowledge Self Assessment Program (MKSAP) 11, American College of Physicians, Philadelphia 1998