In addition, the kinds of suspected plant foods are progressively increasing. Besides various vegetables, latex-allergic people are sometimes affected by tree pollen and medical plants. Any plant has the potential to induce such proteins under certain conditions. Patients allergic to plant foods such as fruits, vegetables, and cereals and those suffering from pollinosis might also hypersensitively react to proteins in natural rubber. Therefore, their careful contact with latex products is recommended.
Latex allergy can induce clinical reactions to specific foods.
Class I chitinases with hevein-like domain, but not class II enzymes, are relevant chestnut and avocado allergens. Class I chitinases as potentioal panallergens involved in the latex-fruit syndrome. I endochitinase containing a hevein domain is the causative allergen in latex-associated avocado allergy. J. Allergy Clin. Class I chitinases, the panallergens responsible for the latex-fruit syndrome, are induced by ethylene treatment and inactivated by heating.