Gluten Allergy Symptoms

In wheat, barley, rye, and low level oats, there is a tough protein called gluten. This substance is what makes the dough bind, which you can see with baked breads and other baked foods. Although these grains contains gluten, which may cause a gluten allergy in responsive people they additionally contain numerous additional proteins that [...]

New Allergy Friendly Foods For Kids (and everyone else)

Cherrybrook Kitchen Chocolate Chip Cookie Mix
Company: Cherrybrook Kitchen, www.cherrybrookkitchen.com
Free of: peanut, tree nut, dairy, and egg.
Description: Chocolate chip cookies containing imported Belgium chocolate chips, the finest all-natural vanilla, and a few other key ingredients.
Cross-Contamination Issues: According to information on the company’s Web site, all mixes are prepared in a peanut-free and tree-nut free facility. [...]

What Kind of Milk or Milk Substitutes is Good for Your Child?

Breast milk?
Yes. A child with milk allergy can in most cases tolerate breast milk. Only in very rare cases, children with milk allergies react to the cow milk protein in breast milk. In this situation it may be necessary for the mother by agreement with the doctor also go on a milk free diet.
Infant [...]

Yeast Allergy – Symptoms, Cause and Treatment

Generally there are two reasons for yeast allergy symptoms:

Yeast allergy for foods that contain yeast, like bread, wine and beer.
Candidacies, which is a yeast infection in the body and not an actual allergy.

Symptoms of Yeast Allergy
For both types of yeast reactions, the symptoms are somewhat the same and may include the following:

Feeling slow
Feeling fatigue
Headache
Sneezing
Itchy nose
Itchy [...]

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 [...]

Yeast Allergy – Symptoms And What To Avoid

If you suffer from Yeast Allergy then you have a Type 1 Allergy, also known as Contact Allergy. This is a hypersensitivity to a protein found in yeast that causes the immune system to overreact causing an allergic reaction. Antibodies and histamines are releases into the blood stream in an attempt to neutralize the yeast [...]