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1945 Amer. Weekly 26 Aug. 23/1 Doctors..have no doubt that these..ingredients were the offending agent. They proved this by giving their patients ‘desensitization’ treatment and curing them of their auto-allergy.

1983 B. Inglis & R. West Alternative Health Guide 310 Clinical ecologists believe that allergies and autoallergies are frequently the consequence of pollution of the air we breathe and, even more, of the food we eat.

2003 M. Humbert et al. in B. N. Lambrecht et al. Immunol. Basis Asthma xiv. 355 One suggestion is that intrinsic asthma represents a form of autoimmunity, or autoallergy, triggered by infection as a respiratory influenza–like illness often precedes onset.