In many cases, especially when the symptoms of allergies are delayed, people do not tend to associate the eating of a food with the appearance of these symptoms, but ...
Food allergies, how do we discover we suffer from them ?!
You have just finished a hearty and delicious meal. But you suddenly discover minutes or hours later that your eyes are bleeding, your skin is starting to ring red, your throat starts to bleed and you feel difficulty breathing. Of course, there is no link between these phenomena and the meal you enjoyed so much, but in fact there is a high probability that a certain food, or something in a particular food, made you feel this. If so, you are allergic to a particular food.
Sensitivity to food, or to a particular substance in food, is a relatively common phenomenon. Because of the immature maturity of our immune system and its ability to deal with these substances and foods, we can suffer from allergies to specific substances in food or even to a particular type of food. Allergy can disappear with age, and the proportion of people with food allergies at a more advanced age is actually declining. However, this phenomenon is not easy and is often a real danger to us.
In order to make sure that they are already sensitive, the doctor checks whether the patient is allergic to food or does not tolerate any type of food. The difference is that the immune system, in allergic cases, produces antibodies to those nutrients that we are sensitive to. Food intolerance is an over-sensitivity to the food itself and has nothing to do with the immune system. People with asthma, diabetes and eczema are more sensitive to certain foods. Inadequate enzyme or gastric acid, due to lack of vitamins, minerals and imbalances in the energy of the body, as they become too sensitive to a particular food.
Foods that are allergenic include: dairy products, meat, eggs, tomatoes, chocolate, seafood, pistachios and walnuts.
At first, to make sure it is really sensitive, the doctor examines what the patient ate on the day the symptoms appeared and in the following days, where was he? From which materials approached? And so on. They are then screened to see if the symptoms are consistent with allergy symptoms. He then performs blood tests to check if there is a high level of lgE, which is produced when different foods enter the body. In addition, skin tests are performed ( Skin Tests ), which examines changes in the skin when it comes into contact with this food. A test is performed on the arm, and if the result is positive, the skin will swell and reddish. In the end, challenge tests are performed. These tests aim to confirm suspicions that a certain substance (allergen) is responsible for the symptoms that have emerged, by exposing the patient to this allergen.
As we mentioned at the beginning, symptoms sometimes appear minutes after eating, sometimes hours later, even days later. So many people do not tend to associate the symptoms with the possibility that they are allergic to food, or something in the food. So only when they eat the same food the next time, and have the same symptoms, will they connect the two, and they know that something is not good, and that they should do the examination.
After discovering this sensitivity, the patient begins to receive an anti-allergic treatment.
First: Refrain from eating food or food that causes allergies.
Second: He receives an anti-allergic drug.
It is important to note that allergies in children disappear on their own, and a doctor must follow up to make sure.