Talk:Soy allergy

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I'm not sure whether this can't be merged with allergy. There's a lot of bossing around - remember we are an encyclopedia and not a repository of informational leaflets. The assertion that certain commercial products contain soy needs outside sourcing from a reliable information outlet. JFW | T@lk 14:43, 30 December 2005 (UTC)

I agree, there is nothing topical to soybean allergy here. Just allergy. The article on soybean already lists soy products. --Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) 00:48, 30 January 2006 (UTC)

Let's merge away, then. JFW | T@lk 12:08, 30 January 2006 (UTC)

I believe when you said that "The assertion that certain commercial products contain soy needs outside sourcing," you were refering to the information about buns. You can find information like this on the restaraunts' own web pages (e.g. http://www.mcdonalds.com/app_controller.nutrition.categories.ingredients.index.html). I htink that there is some valuable information here that does not exist in the soybean article, so I hope you will retain that information when you undertake your merge. --J Dickstein

I agree some of this material should be in allergy, but I think there's enough material out there for an article. See this paper for a good summary of some of the research on the subject. In particular, soy protein allergy typically requires a much higher dose to elicit a reaction than most allergies (90% of sufferers can tolerate up to 400mg doses, versus 0.1mg for peanut allergies and 3-4mg for milk allergies). There is also a large debate over whether giving milk-allergic infants soy formula as a substitute may put them at high risk of developing soy allergy (as a result, some organizations recommend against using soy milk for that purpose, while others still recommend it), though perhaps some of that debate should be covered in soy milk instead. --Delirium 05:28, 3 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Broken link

I removed the following link as the page is no longer there, although the website still exists. --apers0n 18:30, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

• Soy allergy soya.be

[edit] Citation Needed?

I don't understand why there's a citation needed for "As a result, some may be able to tolerate consumption of soy oil, which contains little soy protein." Is it in reference to the fact that Soy oil contains very little protein? That should be self evident, methinks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.79.222.10 (talk) 02:46, 12 September 2007 (UTC)