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Food Allergies
What are Food Allergies?
Food Allergies are an abnormal response to a food that is triggered by your body's immune system.
These allergic reactions to food, can sometimes cause serious illness and death.
What foods are the main Offenders?
Peanuts and tree nuts are the leading causes of deadly allergic reactions called anaphylaxis.
Problem foods for adults, include fish and shellfish, such as shrimp, lobster and crab, peanuts, tree nuts, such as walnuts, and eggs.
The foods that most often trigger allergic reactions for children are eggs, milk (especially in infants and young children) and peanuts.
If you would like to know how to beat your child's allergies quickly and easily without injections or drugs look at out Child Allergy page.
Often a reaction to food is not an allergy. It is often a reaction called "food intolerance".
Your body's immune system does not cause the symptoms of food intolerance. However, these symptoms are often very similar and can look and feel like those of a food allergy.
What treatments are available?
One of the main treatments for Food Allergies, is avoiding the foods in question. However, this isn't always as easy or simple as it sounds. For example, if you are allergic to eggs, you have to avoid everything containing eggs. So carefully checking the labels of all commercially prepared foods, is not enough, you would also need to consider things like vaccines made with egg residues, which include injections for flu and yellow fever.
For those people that are highly allergic, and have had an anaphylactic reaction previously, avoiding the food in question can be a matter of life or death. As the smallest trace of the allergen can set off a reaction, constant vigilance is required. and it's therefore wise to avoid these foods completely and to remove them from your home. Nut and peanuts are a good example of this.
Egg, Milk, Wheat and other Food Allergies will be examined more closely on separate pages within this site. You can use the menu to navigate to these pages.
