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Difference of allergies and intolerances
Food allergy, is when your body has developed an immune response to a food and that immune response causes food allergy. Food intolerances that are not immunologically mediated. -
How allergies present themselves
There is overlap between intolerance and allergy. Someone with hives, itching, flushing, trouble breathing after ingestion of a food, that probably is food allergy. A patient who comes to you who says that they have severe migraine headaches after ingesting a food. -
Types of allergic reactions
Anaphylaxis, which is a generalized severe allergic reaction that can include things like hives, asthma, swelling of the back of the throat, and severe cardiovascular problems like cardiac arrest. There is also Eczema, which causes dry itchy skin. Lastly there is esophagus, which gets inflamed by allergic reactions to food. -
Reactions
Peoples food allergy reaction is the same for a particular thing every time they encounter it. -
How to treat reactions
One treatment is to try to avoid allergies at all cost. Another is carry their anaphylactic emergency medicines with them at all times -
What to do if you ave allergies
If I had an anaphylactic reaction to foods I would be sure that I had emergency medications to take and be sure that I knew how and when to take the medicines.
