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Do You Have Food Allergies Symptoms?

When you experience food allergies symptoms there are many things you can do. First, you should start making a food journal. That means you write down each food that you eat. In particular, you should watch foods which typically cause problems such as tomatoes, soy beans, peanuts, egg allergy symptoms, milk allergy symptoms and milk products, wheat allergy symptoms and such.

Other common food allergies include crustacean shellfish and other tree nuts. It's basically the proteins in the foods which cause the problems. In milk the protein is called 'casein', which used to be mixed with egg albumin (eggwhites) to make paint. That's how they did 'frescos', which is where they would paint on plaster walls. Some of the ancient frescos have lasted over 500 years.

The food protein causes the body to fight as if it were an enemy. Approximately 12 million people in America exhibit food allergies symptoms. Since the total population of the US is 308 million, that means that one out of every twenty five people experience food allergies (although that statistic might actually be far higher than that, because many doctors don't even believe that there's such a thing as an 'allergic reaction'. Until that attitude changes, we won't really know how many experience such symptoms).

Food allergy symptoms are different than the three other forms of adverse reactions to food. The four are food intolerance, pharmacological reactions and toxin-mediated reactions.

1. Food allergies symptoms

A food allergy has an underlying basis which is related to an immune response reaction against particular proteins that are found in foods such as casein, which is milk protein. The food protein that triggered the response is called a food allergy. 30,000 people-per-year go to emergency rooms complaining about food allergy symptoms.

2. Food intolerance

Lactose Intolerance
lactase deficiency

3. pharmacological reactions

Caffeine tremors

Cheese and wine - this occurs when you combine an MAO inhibitor with cheese or wine which has tyramine in it.

Migraine

scombroid - Rotting fish because it's been improperly handled (histamine reaction caused by fish poisoning).

4. toxin-mediated reactions

Bacterial infection by way of poisoning
staphylotoxin

All of these four are lumped under the general term 'food allergies symptoms' even if they aren't specifically allergies, per-se. Toxin-mediated responses are generally rare. They happen when you eat food which has been un-refrigerated or had spoiled. Pharmacological reactions are associated with the intake of such a thing as caffeine or bad fish.

Most people don't much care about specifics of 'that's not actually a food allergy'. It still goes by the same way of treating it¡­ "You shouldn't eat bad fish" is similar to "don't eat wheat gluten" even though one is a food allergy and the other is considered to be a pharmacological reaction. The symptoms that you get will all be quite similar in either case. If you eat bad fish, for example, you will have skin flushing (looks like a rash), throbbing headache, nausea, diarrhea, oral burning, a sense of unease or asthmatic symptoms. To the layman, those are all going to look extremely like the same problem.

Food allergies symptoms, then, must be analyzed to determine which of these four categories your particular problems fit into. They might either give you a scratch test, where they scratch you and introduce different common allergens. They usually prick your skin, rather than scratch you. They check for things as pollen, animal dander, insect venom and such.