Histamine 50-Skin-Prick Test: A Tool to Diagnose Histamine Intolerance

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</svg>; wheal size was read 50 minutes after testing with a histamine standard prick-test, 78 /156 probands displayed a histamine-wheal ≥ 3 mm, 17,95% (<svg height="10.8125" id="M8" style="vertical-align:-0.10033pt" version="1.1" viewbox="0 0 42.912498 10.8125" width="42.912498" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg">
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</svg>) from the control group and 82,05% (<svg height="11.0375" id="M9" style="vertical-align:-0.17555pt" version="1.1" viewbox="0 0 42.912498 11.0375" width="42.912498" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg">
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