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Understanding Food Allergies and Intolerances: Causes, Symptoms, and Management

Learn about food allergies and intolerances, including their causes, symptoms, and how to manage them. Food allergies involve the immune system's reaction to specific proteins, while food intolerances do not. Discover the differences and how to identify and cope with these conditions effectively.

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Understanding Food Allergies and Intolerances: Causes, Symptoms, and Management

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  1. Food Allergies & Intolerances

  2. Food Sensitivity • adverse reaction to a food that other people can safely eat • includes food allergies, food intolerances, and chemical sensitivities

  3. Food Allergies • sensitivities caused by a reaction of the body's immune system to specific proteins in a food • food protein is mistakenly identified by the immune system as being harmful

  4. How an Allergy Happens • Eat food • Body releases something called a histamine • Reaction is caused in the respiratory system, gastrointestinal tract, skin or cardiovascular system Current estimates are food allergies affect as many as 6% of young children and 3% to 4% of adults

  5. Food Intolerance • food sensitivity that does not involve the individual's immune system • takes a more normal sized portion to produce symptoms of food intolerance • food intolerances are likely to originate in the gastrointestinal system

  6. caused by an inability to digest or absorb certain foods, or components of those foods • Ex:Celiac  Gluten Intolerance • Current estimates are 1% of the population is Celiac

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