Food Allergy Symptoms

It’s very hard to understand the difference between food allergy and intolerance, because some symptoms for both are almost the same. So many times people get confused and make mistakes to decide that either it’s a food allergy or intolerance.

Food intolerance is much more common, whereas food allergy is only 1 or 2% of the population or maybe 3%.

Food intolerance is miserable but allergy is dangerous, sometimes it’s life threatening. So it’s very important to have knowledge about the difference in between the two. Read the rest of this entry »

Was there an instance when you ate something like an ice cream, cake, cheese, or a piece of fruit – and you felt even hungrier? Have you experienced any food urges wherein you can’t satisfy such cravings except eating the same food?

If your answer to the questions above is ‘yes’, then you have food allergies and you’re probably fat by now. Food allergy can make you fat, and that is already a proven fact.

Allergic people crave for foods that they’re allergic to and this is caused by food sensitivities. Take note of drug addicts that exhibit withdrawal symptoms. The same thing also happens to people with food allergies; when they are not able to eat certain foods, they experience discomfort. Read the rest of this entry »

Lamb and pears may appear to be a strange combination, but the reason they are chosen as part of a food allergy diet is because they are rarely indicated in allergies and are therefore relatively safe foods for most people with a food allergy to eat.

Often the best way to treat a food allergy is to avoid the food that causes the allergy altogether so a period of exclusion gives your body a chance to tell you which foods are making you ill and whether you react to one food or many foods.

An exclusion diet consists of eliminating one or more foods completely from the diet for a given period of time and then reintroducing foods one at a time to check for adverse reactions. Read the rest of this entry »