A food allergy is a hypersensitivity to substances that occur in food. All foods can cause allergies. Among the foods that most often trigger allergies include milk, eggs, carrots, fruits, nuts, fish, spices and potatoes. Typical reactions are watery eyes, runny nose and skin irritations, but also nausea, stomach cramps ,Psoriasis eczema and diarrhea.

Victim of a food allergy are from 7 to 10 percent of children and about 5 percent of adults.

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I have a food allergy?
Example: milk allergy
What should I consider a milk allergy?
 

I have a food allergy?
Looking at a suspected food allergy is a physician. This may be possible allergies with these methods can be identified:

When the doctor rubs rubs the food several times on a selected body of the skin. You get 15-20 minutes after skin irritation, there is an allergy.
In the case of the exclusion and provocation diet, you must have seven days to comply with a diet, for example, a water-rice-potato diet. Previously by a skin test a rice-potato allergy excluded. Improve your complaints, the diet will be gradually added more food until the allergy trigger is found.
When you prick allergens are different on the inside of the forearm or back applied. The skin is then using a fine needle eingestochen. If you click on one of the allergens react, there will be redness, itching .
Blood tests
Example: milk allergy
> When a milk allergy the body reacts to the proteins (proteins) are allergic to milk, of which there are more than 25 different there. Since not everyone is allergic to milk proteins react the same, may, for example, a patient tolerated boiled milk, the other not.

Common reactions in a milk allergy are vomiting, diarrhea, nasal mucosa inflammation, asthma and atopic dermatitis.

Milk allergy

For a milk allergy is a hypersensitivity to milk proteins. Contrary to the lactose intolerant: Here the body can not adequately digest lactose and reacts with abdominal pain, bloating or diarrhea. Medicines help.

What should I consider a milk allergy?
For a milk allergy you should use the milk from the diet removed. Milk is used for different purposes, such as binders in finished products, to enhance the protein content in meat products, refinement of deli salads, adding a liquid in cakes, bread and biscuits. It is important therefore to the list of ingredients to accurately read. Notes on milk protein supply concepts such as whey protein, sour whey, casein or castigates.

You have to renounce milk, your daily calcium needs hardly be met, because 60-70 percent of the demand comes from the milk. The calcium deficit must be balanced calcium-rich foods are: for example, broccoli, kale, soybeans and calcium mineral water. Nevertheless, often at an additional medication adding calcium not be waived.