Supplementary memorandum by Dr Damien
Downing, President, British Society for Ecological Medicine
In written evidence, the BSEM said that "allergic
patients tend to be deficient in several of the vitamins and minerals
necessary for optimum function of the immune system: correcting
such deficiencies seems to improve their general health and lessen
their hyper-reactivity". What is the evidence for this statement?
Evidence for Vitamin Deficiencies in Environmentally-Sensitive
Patients
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and Carlisle L.
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Serum Zinc in a Series of Allergy Patients
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J Nutr Env Med 7(1):62-3
(1997)
Bronchial reactivity and dietary antioxidants
Soutar A, Seaton A and Brown K.
Thorax 52(2):166-70
(1997)
Dietary fats and asthma in teenagers: analyses
of the first Nutrition and Health Survey in Taiwan (NAHSIT)
Huang S L and Pan W H.
Clin Exp Allergy
31(12):1875-80 (2001)
Vitamin A status in children with asthma
Arora P, Kumar V and Batra S.
Pediatr Allergy Immunol
13(3):223-6 (2002)
Serum vitamin levels and the risk of asthma in
children
Harik-Khan R I, Muller D C and Wise R A.
Am J Epidemiol 159(4):351-7
(2004)
Levels of coenzyme Q10 in asthmatics
Gazdik F, Gvozdjakova A, Horvathova M, Weissova
S, Kucharska J, Pijak M R, and Gazdikova K.
Bratisl Lek Listy
103(10):353-6 (2002)
The role of selenium, zinc and antioxidant vitamin
supplementation in the treatment of bronchial asthma: adjuvant
therapy or not?
Riccioni G and D'Orazio N.
Expert Opin Investig Drugs
14(9):1145-55 (2005)
Dietary intake in patients with asthma: a case
control study
de Luis D A, Armentia A, Aller R, Asensio A,
Sedano E, Izaola O and Cuellar L.
Nutrition 21(3):320-4
(2005)
The influence of the dietary intake of fatty acids
and antioxidants on hay fever in adults
Nagel G, Nieters A, Becker N and Linseisen J.
Allergy 58(12):1277-84
(2003)
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