What are the symptoms of food allergy?
Allergic reactions vary greatly and may begin immediately after the consumption of food or several hours later. Typical symptoms are:
- Lip, tongue, swollen face or oropharynx
- Itching sensation in the mouth and lips and the oropharynx
- Vomiting, abdominal pain and diarrhea
- Rhinoconjunctivitis
- Asthma
- Skin reactions, urticaria, worsening of atopic eczema children- Rarely, anaphylactic shock, which is a circulatory collapse and require specialized treatment in the emergency.
- The symptoms are mild the first time can be lethal the next, the risk of suffocation or anaphylactic shock. Should not take this risk by eating foods that have shown a hypersensitivity and avoiding related thereto.
What can you do to prevent food allergy?
If you are allergic, you should know which foods are responsible and all related biologically, and note carefully any cross-reaction.
Your allergist can provide a list of foods that may or may not take.
Be aware of symptoms and consult your doctor whenever you have questions or experience any abnormal reaction to some food.
How is food allergy?
- If recognition thoroughly identifies the food he is allergic, the most important treatment is to stop eating it, of course.
- Medical treatment will not cure the disease but alleviate the symptoms.
- Antihistamines relieve the itching but do not have a preventive effect.
credit to: Dr. Flemming Andersen, Dr. Dan Rutherford, Dr. Jaime Royo Cabañero