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Descriptor English: Food Intolerance
Descriptor Spanish: Intolerancia Alimentaria
Descriptor intolerancia alimentaria
Entry term(s) sensibilidad alimentaria
Scope note: Trastorno de digestivo en el que un determinado alimento irrita el aparato digestivo o no puede digerirse adecuadamente (debido a la ausencia de una enzima digestiva). Se diferencia de la HIPERSENSIBILIDAD A LOS ALIMENTOS en que esta última es un trastorno del sistema inmunitario, generalmente debido a determinadas proteínas presentes en los alimentos. (Traducción libre del original: http://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/articles/problem-foods-is-it-an-allergy-or-intolerance)
Descriptor Portuguese: Intolerância Alimentar
Descriptor French: Intolérance alimentaire
Entry term(s): Food, Sensitivity
Intolerance, Food
Tree number(s): C23.888.821.387
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D000073923
Scope note: Digestive system disorder where a particular food irritates the digestive tract or cannot be properly digested (i.e., due to a lack of a digestive enzyme). It differs from FOOD HYPERSENSITIVITY which is an immune system disorder, usually due to specific proteins in food. http://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/articles/problem-foods-is-it-an-allergy-or-intolerance.
Allowable Qualifiers: BL blood
CF cerebrospinal fluid
CI chemically induced
CL classification
CN congenital
CO complications
DG diagnostic imaging
DH diet therapy
DI diagnosis
DT drug therapy
EC economics
EH ethnology
EM embryology
EN enzymology
EP epidemiology
ET etiology
GE genetics
HI history
IM immunology
ME metabolism
MI microbiology
MO mortality
NU nursing
PA pathology
PC prevention & control
PP physiopathology
PS parasitology
PX psychology
RH rehabilitation
RT radiotherapy
SU surgery
TH therapy
UR urine
VE veterinary
VI virology
Public MeSH Note: 2018
History Note: 2018
DeCS ID: 56965
Unique ID: D000073923
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Date Established: 2018/01/01
Date of Entry: 2017/07/11
Revision Date: 2017/03/02
Food Intolerance - Preferred
Concept UI M000625000
Scope note Digestive system disorder where a particular food irritates the digestive tract or cannot be properly digested (i.e., due to a lack of a digestive enzyme). It differs from FOOD HYPERSENSITIVITY which is an immune system disorder, usually due to specific proteins in food. http://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/articles/problem-foods-is-it-an-allergy-or-intolerance.
Preferred term Food Intolerance
Entry term(s) Food, Sensitivity
Intolerance, Food



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