Fish Allergy

A fish allergy and a shellfish allergy are two different things. While a shellfish allergy includes lobster, clams, shrimp and any other fish with an outer hard shell, a fish allergy includes more routine types of fish–salmon, tuna, pollock, cod, eel, snapper, and others.
A fish allergy usually develops in adults and if you are allergic [...]

Chocolate Allergy – Symptoms and Treatment

Chocolate allergies may cause asthma symptoms in susceptible people especially when a person is allergic to more than one ingredient in the chocolate. Some of the common ingredients include cocoa, milk, caffeine, gluten, soy lecithin, phenyl-ethylamine, nuts, theo-bromine, and dyes.
Chocolate allergy symptoms may include

anxiety,
confusion,
headaches,
hives,
irritability,
nausea,
eczema,
itching,
watery eyes,
runny nose,
sneezing,
wheezing,
coughing,
heartburn,
difficulty breathing due to inflammation of the airway, and
anaphylaxis or [...]

Should I feed my son yogurt?

Question
When I was little I had a milk allergy of which I grew out of. Therefore, my son also has the risk of getting it. My son is 7 ½ months. Should I avoid giving him yogurt and cheese?

Answer
When you talk about milk allergy or hypersensitivity to milk you distinguish between allergies and intolerances. When [...]

What is hypersensitivity to food?

Some people have hypersensitivity reactions when they eat certain foods or food additives. It is typically quite ordinary foods that give rise to the reactions.
To identify reactions as hypersensitivity to food, the symptoms has to:

occur when you eat the food you can not tolerate,

disappear or decrease when you stop eating the food, and

come back when [...]