Common Food Allergy Triggers
We all have foods that we don’t react to well. They may give us a stomach ache or cause other mild symptoms. For a few people with true food allergies, much more severe reactions may occur. The following five foods are ones that commonly cause true food allergies.
1. Nuts
Not that many people are allergic to nuts, but those who are may have life threatening reactions if they are exposed to nuts. Not only can the nuts be a problem, just the residue from nuts anywhere food is made can cause a reaction as well in people with a nut allergy.
It doesn’t take much for those allergic to nuts to have a serious problem. Even touching another person who just ate or touched nuts could be enough for a reaction to occur. Nut allergies usually stay with a person his whole life so he always has to be vigilant.
Nut allergies across the board are rare but it can happen. In general, we associate nut allergy to peanut allergy but other nuts can cause an allergic reaction to people. As allergens, nuts differ from each other so a person who is allergic to peanuts may not be allergic to other nuts like almonds, walnuts, pecans and cashews.
2. Milk
Lactose intolerance, which is what causes most people problems, is not the same as food allergy. Instead, lactose intolerance has more to do with your body not being able to process milk causing stomach problems. Children usually display symptoms of milk allergies at a young age. In general, however, children get over milk allergies as they grow. Sometimes soy can be used as a substitute for milk for those with allergies but occasionally there could still be a reaction.
3. Eggs
Like milk allergies, egg allergies commonly children. And again, like milk allergies, egg allergies disappear as children grow up. You can still get that egg flavor in your food if you are allergic to eggs. You can use egg replacement product for baking with good results but not for making scrambled or fried eggs. This substance comes in a powder form so it may take a few tries before you get it right.
4. Seafood (Shellfish, Fish)
People are usually either allergic to fish or to shellfish, not to both of them at once. However, often people will have problems with several different kinds of fish or with several different shellfish. If you have an allergy to one type of shellfish, you may likely have an allergy to two or more types of shellfish, even all types. Once you have this type of allergy, you’ll have it for the rest of your life.
5. Wheat
Wheat allergies and celiac disease, which is the inability to digest glutens like wheat, are not the same thing. Celiac disease is not related to allergies at all. Actual wheat allergies occur in a little less than 10% of the population under the age of 3. Wheat is found in almost everything but usually those with wheat allergies can eat other varieties of wheat than the one they are allergic to.
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