Perfume Allergy

Perfume is one of the major causes of allergic contact eczema. Perfume allergy occurs most frequently in women, but also among men, younger adults and older children.
What’s perfume?
A perfume is a mixture of fragrances, which are composed to form an aesthetic whole. The individual fragrance ingredients in a perfume are volatile and are released to [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Food allergy and cross reactions – (Food hypersensitivity)

What is food allergy?
Food allergy is an allergic reaction, that is a hypersensitivity reaction to something in the food, which we can not tolerate.
Food allergy is not the same as food intolerance, which is something quite different. In both cases you get symptoms when you eat a certain food in a normal or small quantity, [...]