ANTIALLERGIC COMPOSITION

摘要

It is intended to provide an antiallergic composition which is useful in preventing and treating allergy, a method of preparing the same and utilization thereof as foods, drinks, etc. An allergic composition containin g, as the active ingredient, a lactic acid bacterium which shows an interleukin 12 productivity comparable to the case using L. paracasei KW3110 strain as a test lactic acid bacterium or at least 60% as much as the case using L. paracasei KW3110 strain and an interleukin 4 productivity less than 50% of t he control case without adding any lactic acid bacteria, when cultured in an eg g albumin-containing medium in which mouse spleen-origin lymphocytes having be en sensitized with egg albumin are suspended. A method of obtaining the lactic acid bacterium having a high antiallergic activity, which is the active ingredient of the antiallergic composition; utilization of the antiallergic composition in foods, drinks, etc.; and utilization of the antiallergic composition by processing it into an antiallergic preparation for oral administration.