Common Allergens
In addition to foreign proteins found in foreign serum (from blood transfusions) and vaccines, common allergens include:
- Animal products
- Fel d 1 (Allergy to cats)
- fur and dander
- cockroach calyx
- wool
- dust mite excretion
- Drugs
- penicillin
- sulfonamides
- salicylates (also found naturally in numerous fruits)
- Foods
- celery and celeriac
- corn or maize
- eggs (typically albumen, the white)
- fruit
- pumpkin, egg-plant
- legumes
- beans
- peas
- peanuts
- soybeans
- milk
- seafood
- sesame
- soy
- tree nuts
- pecans
- almonds
- wheat
- Insect stings
- bee sting venom
- wasp sting venom
- mosquito stings
- Mold spores
- Other
- latex
- metal
- Plant pollens (hay fever)
- grass — ryegrass, timothy-grass
- weeds — ragweed, plantago, nettle, artemisia vulgaris, chenopodium album, sorrel
- trees — birch, alder, hazel, hornbeam, aesculus, willow, poplar, platanus, tilia, olea, Ashe juniper, Alstonia scholaris
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