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Food allergy is the body’s immune system response to a food component, most often in a protein.It can be severe and should be identified by an allergist. A true food allergy, so-called food hypersensitivity may manifest in many forms.

What foods cause allergies?
The most common causes of food allergies are: milk, egg, peanuts, walnuts, soy, wheat, fish and seafood.
These cause 90% of allergic reactions to food. Many other foods cause allergic reactions in some people.

What are the symptoms of food allergy?
Symptoms differ much between individuals.The symptoms may be different and the same man, on repeated exposure to the same allergen.Allergic reactions can vary in terms of severity, time of occurrence and can occur after food has been consumed.The most common symptoms include skin irritation, eczema, urticaria and gastrointestinal symptoms such as nausea, diarrhea and vomiting.

The most common are intolerances, in order, related to: milk, eggs, peanuts, fish / seafood, wheat / flour, chocolate, artificial coloring, pork / bacon, chicken, tomatoes, fruit, cheese and yeast.

Although not all are related intolerance with the meat and dairy products, you can see from the above that vegetarians and especially vegans, suffer to a lesser degree of intolerance to food is already eliminate some of the most common causes of intolerance .

SYMPTOMS

The most common symptoms of allergies include asthma, gastro-intestinal symptoms (nausea, vomiting and diarrhea), eczema, hives, rhinorrhea (strong discharge from the nose) and angio-edema (redness of the blood vessels). Some other long-term symptoms can include depression, anxiety, fatigue, headache, insomnia and hyperactivity in children.
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The food intolerance are “not allergic allergies.” This definition dates back to 1991, when the allergy Kaplan presented his article that described the existence of states that allergy was not possible to correlate immunoglobulin E (IgE). So the first thing to understand is that traditional allergy and food intolerance are not the same thing.
If a substance to which it is intolerant reaches the body’s defenses (white blood cells, particularly lymphocytes) are diverted from their normal duties to deal all aggressore, thus creating a decrease in general immune defenses.
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The most disseminated among the intestinal allergies is celiac. Celiac is an allergic reaction to gluten, a protein that is found in many grains, especially wheat, barley, rye, oats, while other sources of starch is not (rice, maize, millet, potato, tapioca, beans, …).

Treatment
At present a diet without gluten, continued throughout life, is the only treatment possible, but you are studying other alternatives to diet aglutinata.
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