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Food Allergy and Intolerance
Food allergies are adverse immune reactions to food proteins and are
more common in infants than adults. They differ from food intolerances,
which do not involve the immune system and instead may be due to a
physiological inability to digest a food due to the lack of a specific
enzyme, for example lactose intolerance, or as a result of a
pharmacological reaction to substances, like caffeine. Read on to find
out more about the differences between food allergies and intolerances,
how an allergic reaction occurs and how food allergy is diagnosed and
managed.
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History (medical and diet)
Skin tests: SPT, prick to prick, Atopy patch test
Specific IgE-levels
Food challenges
Elimination diets
...The risk factors Risk factors involved in the development of allergy 1. Genetic If one or both parents have an allergy there is a greater chance of the child developing that allergy 2. Environment Environmental risk factors contribute to the development of an allergy:
