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 [...]

Advice on Allergy Confuses Parents

One in three parents find it difficult to find out how to fight allergies
Avoid rugs. They are just dust collectors.
Avoid wood flooring.  The dust whirls around instead of staying in one place.
Both advice to prevent allergies exist. Like thousands of sites worldwide that are filled with more or less good advice on what to do [...]

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 [...]

Pollen may cause food allergy

About 20% of the population suffers from pollen allergy, and if you are one of the unfortunate, you should be aware of certain kinds of foods. See the list here.

The pollen season is upon us. For those, who suffer from allergies, this time in the year is tough to get through, but many people with [...]

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 [...]

Proper diet during pregnancy may prevent your child from developing asthma and allergies.

If women during pregnancy eat vegetables and fish, they may reduce the risk for their children to develop asthma and food allergies.
Avoid red meat and eat plenty of vegetables and fish, if you will try to avoid that your child develops asthma or allergy.
This is the recommendation for pregnant women in a new study by [...]

Cats may prevent asthma and allergies

A study in May 2008, published in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, shows that cats in the childhood home, may help reduce the number of children who develop asthma and allergic.

This unexpected result is the outcome of a larger investigation that started back in 1998. A study aimed to show the consequence for [...]