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Food Allergy
A food allergy occurs because of a hypersensitivity caused by taking or eating a certain food.
In young children, the most common allergies are caused by the following foods: eggs, milk, shellfish, nuts, citrus and tomatoes. Adults is less common in this type of allergy.
The person before making an allergic reaction to food, must have been previously exposed to such food at least once. Allergic symptoms appear the second time the person eats the food. This time, reacting antibodies that have occurred with the ingested food, histamines are released which give the reactions.
Symptoms may include:
- Itching in the mouth.
- Difficulty breathing.
- -Stomach pain.
- Vomiting.
- Diarrhea.
- Rash.
- Asthmatic bronchitis or asthma.
- Allergic rhinitis.
There is no medicine to prevent the onset of symptoms. But the picture can be prevented if detected what foods that cause the reaction and not consumed.
Similarly it is advisable to ask the doctor a drug, for use in an emergency and to counteract severe reactions that can cause a complication.