What is food allergy

What is a food allergy? 

Then food allergies are abnormal responses of the immune system to an individual and usually these particular food are containing a protein food sensitivities are a general term which have been used for perhaps defining or explaining food allergies.

Then you also have food and tolerances what are these we do have heard people suffering from lactose intolerance and that is not a food allergy that is because there is an absence of an enzyme in the body because of which lactose which is a milk sugar cannot be hydrolyzed and as a result you have bloating feeling of discomfort when you have a cup of milk which actually goes away when you have let's say Kurds or yogurts.

Symptoms

we're going to look at the various segments including causes clinical symptoms tests and treatments for food allergy what are the remedies with the use of hyper allergenic foods roller food industry and of course conclusions did you know that glue globally more than 250 million people suffer from food allergies.

we are undergoing what is called as the food allergy epidemic roughly 32 million Americans till date are suffering from food allergies in fact one out of 13 children and one out of 10 adults are
allergic to food allergy cases have risen by 50% in the past decade with more than 700 rise in hospitalizations due to Ana file anaphylaxis.

 Did you know?

 About 3 percent of Indians have got food allergies a majority of them are under the age of 40 years food allergies caused roughly 30,000 emergency treatments and about hundred to 200 deaths per year 300 million Indians are already suffering from peanut allergies.

 What are the causes

The causes of food allergies where have they come from it's because of the genetic manipulation that some new proteins have been introduced and they have gone wrong with our system.

It could be due to environmental factors like what we call it as the hygiene hypothesis that means we are not allowing the children to play with various kinds of you know the diverse microbes and that is why you find that in super hygienic and if you compare between urban and rural kids.

 It is the usceptibility in the urban kids which is higher to these particular allergies as compared to the rural counterparts there have been immense modification in the supply chain during production processing and preservation food ingredients have been sourced from various countries today to
produce a simple food product they're having lifestyle changes and also eating behaviors for instance novel food processing technologies like for instance food irradiation or misuse of microwaves etc could also lead to these food allergic problems publicity of symptoms associated with food have also
been reported to sabe associated with food allergies psychosomatic-ally.

 How food allergy is different from other adverse reactions

The Food allergy is a reaction where the body's immune system is directly involved there is an emergent in the food which is recognized as a foreign body and that is why your body goes and produces antibodies to check the infection these are then seen as allergic reactions in terms of wheezing coughing swelling of lips reddening duty carrier vomiting diarrhea etc in this particular

Types of Allergy

Food allergy you find there are two types one is immediate hypersensitivity reactions and the other one is delayed hypersensitivity reactions in both these your immunoglobulin II reactions are involved and that is why you find that even a trace a whiff or a flavor of an emergent a person is sensitive to would have immediate reactions in terms of respiratory tract or skin reactions.

Classification of the food sensitivities

So if you look at the classification of the food sensitivities they can be classified as food allergies which are further divided into the ones which are immunological and are mediated and
that leads to immediately what is called as anaphylactic shock whereas delayed hypersensitivity
reactions so these are not images for instance celiac disease  which gives you a little bit of time then you have food intolerance like..

we just spoke about lactose intolerance which is a classic example of food intolerance these are non
illogical which means that your immune system does not get involved in this particular reaction after the consumption of the food we are also familiar with a word called as food toxicity this is because of the natural toxins or required present in the food leads to an adverse reaction.

we are also familiar with another word which is very often synonymous used as food aversion that means we have strong dislike towards a particular food commodity further we are going to understand what are the basic differences and where do we understand that what are these particular legends are coming from so in the world today.

 Most common food allergens

• Peanut 
• Wheat
• Soya bean 
• Shellfish ,fish
• Egg ,Milk & Tree nuts

 

The prevalence of some of the common food allergies

you find that the peanut energy is particularly very very high rated that means about 25% of the world population as we speak is suffering from peanut allergy followed by milk allergy you must have been
familiar with a lot of infants and children having what is called as cow's milk.

Energy this is a challenge because these young ones who are dependent on milk as their basic necessity are deprived of it so we have to understand that what are the substitutes which are available and how can we read these particular infants shellfish poisoning is also equally popular.

About 17% or population of the world suffers from it followed by of course we have tree nut allergies which will include like almonds cashew etc egg.

Proteins also a lot of people are allergic to but the scientific data says that kids who are allergic to egg early in their life mostly outgrow it by the age of their adolescence then you have fin-fish allergies wait classically known as gluten antipathy or Celia disease today it is called as
hypersensitivity.