Food Allergy
Food Allergy or Food Intolerance?
If you go to your healthcare provider and say, “I think I have a food allergy,” your provider has to consider other possibilities that may cause symptoms and could be confused with food allergy, such as food intolerance. To find out the difference between food allergy and food intolerance, your provider will go through a [...]
Food Allergy Quick Facts
Quick Facts Food allergy occurs in 6-8 percent of children 4 years of age or under, and in 3.7 percent of adults. In young children, the prevalence of allergy to cow’s milk is 1.9-3.2 percent and allergy to egg is 2.6 percent. Allergy to peanuts and tree nuts in the general population is, respectively, 0.6% [...]
What Is Food Allergy?
Food allergy is an abnormal response to a food triggered by the body’s immune system. In this pamphlet, food allergy refers to a particular type of response of the immune system in which the body produces what is called an allergic, or IgE, antibody to a food. (IgE, or immunoglobulin E, is a type of [...]