Claims
- 1. Avian egg produced by a process comprising: immunizing a female avian with honey; maintaining said female avian in a hyperimmune state by administering to said female avian booster injections of said honey; and collecting eggs from said avian in a hyperimmune state.
- 2. Bovine milk produced by a process comprising: immunizing a cow with honey: maintaining said cow in a hyperimmune state by administering to said cow booster injections of said honey: and collecting milk from said cow in a hyperimmune state.
- 3. A food product comprising said egg of claim 1 or said milk of claim 2.
- 4. A method for producing an egg comprising:
- immunizing a female avian with honey;
- maintaining said female avian in a hyperimmune state by administering to said female avian booster injections of said honey; and
- collecting eggs from said avian in a hyperimmune state.
- 5. The method of claim 4 wherein said female avian is a female chicken.
- 6. A method for producing milk comprising:
- immunizing a cow with honey;
- maintaining said cow in a hyperimmune state by administering to said cow booster injections of said honey; and
- collecting milk from said cow in a hyperimmune state.
- 7. A method of preventing tissue injury which occurs in response to allergic or toxic reactions induced by honey allergens in a warm-blooded animal which comprises administering to said animal a food product produced by the process of immunizing a female avian or bovine with honey, maintaining said female in a hyperimmune state by administering to said female booster injections of honey, and collecting either eggs or milk from said female in a hyperimmune state, in an amount and for a time sufficient to produce an anti-allergic or anti-toxic effect.
- 8. The method of claim 7, wherein said food product is selected from the group consisting of avian egg, avian egg yolk, bovine milk and bovine skim milk.
- 9. The method of claim 7, wherein said food product is in powdered form.
- 10. The method of claim 7, wherein said food product is in liquid form.
- 11. The method of claim 7, wherein said warm-blooded animal comprises humans.
- 12. The method of claim 11, wherein said human is an infant less than two months old.
- 13. The method of claim 12, wherein said anti-allergic or anti-toxic reaction confers protection against Clostridium botulinum.
CROSS-REFERENCES TO RELATED DOCUMENTS
The present application is a continuation-in-part of Ser. No. 161,039, now U.S. Pat. No. 4,879,110, filed Feb. 26, 1988 which is a continuation-in-part of Ser. No. 001,848, filed Jan. 9, 1987, now U.S. Pat. No. 4,897,265, which is a division of Ser. No. 546,162 filed Oct. 27, 1983, now U.S. Pat. No. 4,636,384, which is a continuation-in-part of application Ser. No. 384,625, filed Jun. 3, 1982, now abandoned.
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