Food Allergies

February 22, 2010. 2010. Medicine net.Nemours.

Food Allergies probably will effect someone at some point in their life. Mostly people have reactions to milk, eggs, peanuts, soy, wheat, tree nuts, fish, shellfish. Luckily some people will or can out grow their food allergies. When you do have a food allergy to something your immune system tries to protect you from it.Which makes the antibodies come in to help. You can easily see when you are having a reaction to something. Either it be skin problems:itchy, red, bumpy or cramps, vomiting, asthma, coughing ans the most severe is death. But luckily doctors can proscribe medicine to help you if you do get a reaction to a certain food.

From researching this topic I learned that people in the U.S try as hard as they can to try to make packaged food products ingredients known on the labels. Also if you do go to a restaurant and your not sure what could be in the food that you would like it is required for the waiter/waitress to tell you all that is in it. So that is very helpful if you are one of the "lucky" ones with food allergies.

In my opinion I am thankful that their are treatments for food allergies. Whether it be proscriptions or shots or just time. But also that the companies but whats in products on the labels to help prevent the symptoms.

Since I have so many food allergies i get shots for them every week. I can already tell a huge difference in how i act with food products. Like peanuts my throat would get itchy but since i researched and found this information helpful i decided to get the shots in which they recommend. But I can still apply checking on the food labels and asking people what is in products to help me out. :)

Some recommendations are:
www.kidshealth.org/teen/nutrition/diets/food_allergies.html#
www.answers.com
www.yahooanswers.com
www.google.com