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AB - 226 CURRENT LITERATURE. INFLAMMATIONS. KARAYA GUM AS A CAUSE OF URTICARIA. R. BowEN. (1939) Arch, of Derm, and Syph., 39, 506. KARAYA gum is derived from a tree of the Sterculia family, indigenous to India and other parts of Southern Asia. It is commonly known as Indian gum, and seems to be distinct from several other gums produced from other trees of the same family. Karaya gum appears to have a widespread commercial usage. It is not only to be found in " gum drops " and " ice-creams " and some brands of gelatin. It occurs also in some tooth-pastes and in most of the preparations sold as " denture adhesives." It may also be an ingredient in' many other manufactured foodstuffs and proprietary preparations. Several cases of asthma and other manifestations of sensitivity to this gum have been reported in recent years in America. The author here reports flve cases of hypcrsensitivity to Karaya gum, each of which was traced to a different proprietary preparation in which it occurred as an ingredient. In one of these cases a severe generalized urticaria was succeeded by pigmentary changes suggesting a '' flxed drug eruption." R. K. PIGMENTATIO N FOLLOWING 
TI - CURRENT LITERATURE
JO - British Journal of Dermatology
DO - 10.1111/j.1365-2133.1940.tb09919.x
DA - 1940-07-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/current-literature-cCJZK4mZua
SP - 226
EP - 228
VL - 52
IS - 7
DP - DeepDyve
ER -