It depends on the allergy, not everyone who is allergic to bee stings will be allergic to the by product of bees.
BUT some people CAN be allergic to beeswax, honey, proplolis, Bees wax craft sheets, candles, royal jelly, bee pollen and its resins AS WELL AS being “Allergic to Bee Stings .

Do not take bee propolis if you have asthma, as it can magnify symptoms.
(Though claims have been made for its use in treating allergies, propolis may cause severe allergic reactions if the user is sensitive to bees or bee products).

If you are allergic to bees stings, have hay fever and/or suffer from seasonal allergies such as pollen BE WARE until you can be tested by a health practitioner to determine your precise allergy.
There is a strong precaution for the use of any bee by product for asthmatics or those who suffer from
A seasonal allergy, that is someone who has an allergic reaction to a trigger that is typically only present for part of a year, such as spring or fall.
This type of allergy refers to a pollen allergy, the pollen bees collect from flowers.

Pollens are tiny egg-shaped powdery grains released from flowering plants, which are carried by the wind or insects, and serve to cross-pollinate other plants of the same type for reproductive purposes. When pollen is present in the air, it can land in a person’s eyes, nose, lungs and skin to set up an allergic reaction.

Due to the natural presence of botulinum endospores in honey, children under one year of age should not be given honey. The more developed digestive systems of older children and adults generally destroy the spores. Infants, however, can contract botulism from honey.

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Pollens that are spread by the wind are usually the main cause of seasonal allergies, while pollens that rely on insects (such as the honeybee) to be carried to other plants do not. Most plants with bright, vibrant flowers (such as roses) are insect pollinated and do not generally cause seasonal allergies since the pollen is not usually present in the air.

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• Hay Fever
• Itching in the mouth
• Hives
• Asthma
• Vomiting
• Diarrhoea
• Or, at worst, anaphylactic shock
  

Physical and psychological reactions to allergy

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What causes wheat allergy?

Like all other allergies, wheat allergy is caused by an immune system malfunction. This malfunction causes your immune system to recognize certain proteins in wheat as harmful, and to protect your body against these harmful proteins, your immune system will start to produce antibodies (immunoglobulin E (IgE)).

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These antibodies will then try to neutralize the wheat proteins the next time you eat or get in contact with them by producing histamine and other chemicals.

It is the high concentration of histamine that causes the allergic symptoms such as red itchy eyes, a running nose and other symptoms.


This type of allergy is also known as instant allergy because the symptoms show immediately or within a few hours after you get in contact with the allergen.

The symptoms may be

• itching in the mouth,
• hay fever,
• hives,
• asthma,
• vomiting,
• diarrhoea
• or at worst anaphylactic shock.

Some will only have symptoms if they are making efforts, such as running, just after they have eaten or have been exposed to the allergen.

Allergies to wheat is not the same as coeliac disease, read more about coeliac disease in the “what is coeliac disease?”

The protein, you form antibodies to, can be gluten, but it may also be other proteins in wheat.

If you have wheat allergy, you may well eat the foods that are naturally free of gluten, because they are completely free of wheat proteins. It is not certain however, that you can withstand the so-called gluten-free products, which are special products, where the gluten content is reduced. Here there are still very small quantities of wheat protein left, which may be enough to trigger allergic symptoms in a person with wheat allergy.

If you have wheat allergy and will test you up with gluten-free products, it is therefore important that you first speak with your doctor.

It is most common to have allergies to one cereal only – mostly wheat. Therefore you do not have to avoid rye, barley, oats, corn, millet or buckwheat, unless you are allergic to these corn types.

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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 pollen allergy can also react to a number of foods.

If you suffer from pollen allergy, you might also react to certain kinds of food – for instance when you peel potatoes or eat peaches or apricots. Responses may be itching in the mouth, and some say that the itching seems to continue right out of the ears.

The substances which cause allergies, are proteins. The proteins found in pollen are related to those proteins which are in fruit and vegetables, and the immune system may have difficulties separating them from each other. This may lead to a so-called cross-reaction, where pollen allergic persons reacts allergic to something they have never eaten before.

Sneezing and running eyes

Signs of pollen allergy is sneezing, a runny nose and eyes running (hay fever) together with an annoying itching. The nose might also be so congested that it may be difficult to breathe. In some cases, pollen allergy may cause symptoms from the lungs (asthma).

If you are allergic to pollen you might experience allergic symptoms when you eat certain fruits, vegetables, nuts or spices. The body reacts because it can not distinguish between the allergenic substances (the allergens) in pollen and similar substances in food. This is called cross-reactions.

Every other person with allergies to both birch, grass and mogwort pollen experience symptoms when they eat certain nuts, fruits and vegetables. Among those with only have birch pollen allergy, every three experience cross-reactions.

Some pollen allergic persons may experience symptoms year round, if they eat food that cross reacts with pollen. Others will only have symptoms in the pollen season.

If you suffer from birch pollen allergy, you might also experience symptoms from cross-reacting food when it is the season for pollen from alder, elm or hazel. Similarly, people with allergies to alder, elm and hazel respond to the same food as with birch pollen allergy.

It does not help on the symptoms from the pollen allergy it self that you avoid the foods that cross reacts with pollen.

Symptoms

When responding to food, which cross reacts with pollen, the most common symptoms are itching and swelling on the lips and in the mouth and throat. Some experience that the itching continues right out to the ears.

More rare are symptoms such as hives (rash and itching), asthma and stomach and ingestion problems. A very few people develops eczema on their hands when they touch on some of the food that cross reacts with pollen.

In cases where the reactions are severe such as swelling of the throat and neck, and the cause is not known, the doctor will in some cases perform an allergy test and make a provocation with the suspect foods.

If the doctor chooses to make an allergy test for the cross-reacting food, you should be aware of false positive results. For instance, many with grass pollen allergy will receive a positive response for wheat and other cereal products, when examining the blood sample, but they have no symptoms when they eat wheat. There they should not avoid wheat.

Below is a list of foods that might cross react with pollen.

Birch pollen

Food, which might cause allergic reactions when suffering from birch pollen allergy

Fruit: apricot, plum, peach, cherry, kiwi, nectarine, pear, apple

Vegetables: carrot, potato, tomato, pepper, celery

Nuts: hazelnut, peanut, almond, Brazil nut, walnut

Grass pollen

Food, which might cause allergic reactions when suffering from grass pollen allergy

Fruit: orange, melon

Vegetables: tomato, pea

Nuts: Groundnut / peanut

Mugwort / Sagebrush pollen

Food, which might cause allergic reactions when suffering from Mugwort / Sagebrush pollen allergy

Fruit: Melon, sun flower seeds

Vegetables: Pepper, carrot, parsnip, parsley root, celery

Herbs: Camille, Parsley

Spices and herbs

Spices and herbs, which may cause allergic reactions when suffering from pollen allergy

Anis, curry powder, marjoram, basil, coriander, oregano, dill, caraway, paprika, tarragon, meat, black pepper, fennel, wormwood, thyme.

Exotic fruits and vegetables

Some people with pollen allergy might get unexpected symptoms when they eat raw exotic fruits and vegetables, such as on travel. If you normally have strong reactions against food, it is a good idea to start with little bits of fruit and vegetables until you know whether you can tolerate them or not.

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Allergies are often the cause of hypersensitivity as eczema, asthma and hay fever in children.

There are several reasons for the development of allergies.
Today, some of the causes to allergies are already know, while others hopefully will be resolved by continuing research.

But the children are here right now, and it requires that we act with the knowledge we have today.

On these pages, you can read about what you can do, what is effective and what is no good.

As becoming parents or newly parents, it is important for you to know if your future child / the newborn, is of particular risk of developing allergies. If the child is in particular the risk of developing allergies, this risk is reinforced, if the child simultaneously is exposed to many allergens. The prevention of allergy is therefore, to limit the exposure of allergens.

It is therefore important to speak with your doctor to find out whether your child has particular risk of developing allergies.

What is achieved by allergy prevention?
Research shows that prevention is of great importance.

Food allergy, child eczema, Asthmatic bronchitis and asthma usually starts at pre school age.
If you prevent allergies with your child, you reduce your child’s risk of developing food allergies, child eczema, Asthmatic bronchitis and asthma up to school age.

Read more about how to prevent allergies in your child.

How to prevent allergies?

If your child is in particular risk of developing allergies, you can by following the instructions below, reduce the risk for your child to develop allergies.

Several studies show that in children with a particular risk of developing allergies you may reduce, but not eliminate, the risk of developing food allergies (especially milk allergy) and child eczema in the first year of life if the child only is fed with breast milk or high hydrolysate infant formula in the first 4 months. There are no studies demonstrating a preventive effect on the development of allergy, by breast-feeding after 4 months of age. Studies also show that only a single grant of general infant formula may increase the risk of developing allergies within the first year of life.

You can not prevent allergies to dust mites or animals by breastfeeding. Instead you should look at bed and linnen and indoor climate.

Prevention of allergies in children at particular risk

• Avoid the child being exposed to tobacco smoke.
• There is no evidence of the effect of a dieting pregnant or nursing mother.
• In order to prevent / delay the food allergies, child eczema and asthma the child should be breast fed the first 4 months. If this is not possible or sufficient, the child must have high hydrolysate infant formula in the first 4 months. After 4 months an ordinary infant formula can be used.
• Regular food can be introduced at the earlist, when the child is 4 months if the child’s development and readiness speaks for doing so. Many children thrive on breast milk / formula up to 6 months of age. When introducing regular food, there is no evidence of impact of omitting certain foods (such as milk, eggs, fish, citrus fruits, etc.)
• In order to prevent coeliac disease gluten containing food should be avoided up to 6 months of age. Use instead maize, rice and millet.
• In order to prevent dust mites allergy the child should have a new mattress and clean, washable duvet and pillows.
• In order to prevent fur allergy, fur animals should be avoided in the child’s daily environment in the first year of life.
• Make sure to have a good indoor climate.

Prevention of allergies in children without particular risk

• Avoid the child being exposed to tobacco smoke.
• The child should be breat fed the first 6 months and prefereably longer. If the mother can not breast feed, ordinary infant formula should be used.
• Regular food can be introduced at the earlist when the child is 4 months if the child’s development and readiness speaks for doing so. Many children thrive on breast milk / formula up to 6 months of age.
• In order to prevent coeliac disease foods containing gluten shoul be avoided up to 6 months of age. Use instead maize, rice and millet.
• Make sure to have a good indoor climate.

If you want to reduce the amount of the indoor allergenes which the child can be exposed, fur animals can be avoided in the child’s daily environment in the first year of life, and the child can get a new mattress and a clean, washable duvet and pillows. However, there is no evidence that it prevents allergies in children, who has no particular risk of developing allergies.

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Allergies to milk is one of the most frequent types of food allergies in children. It is the proteins in the milk, that the child can not tolerate.

It is typical children under 1 year, that develops allergies to milk and milk allergy is seen in about 2 percent of all infants in the first year of life.

Symptoms
Milk allergy symptoms may be:

• Hives
• Vomiting
• Diarrhoea
• Hay fever with symptoms from the eyes and nose
• Asthma
• Child eczema

The symptoms most often occurs shortly after the child has been drinking milk or eating anything with milk in, but the reaction may also show later.

Milk allergy is treated with diet
There is no medical treatment that can cure milk allergy. The only treatment of milk allergy is a milk free diet, which excludes all milk from the diet. Just a small amount of milk can cause your child continuously to have symptoms. When the child no longer drinks milk, the symptoms will disappear.

Most grow from milk allergy
Most children grow from milk allergy. 9 out of 10 children with milk allergy can tolerate milk, when they are 3 years. Already in the first year of their life the milk allergy disappears in half of the children.

Hypersensitivity to milk sugar
Allergies to milk is caused be sensitivity to proteins in the milk. You can also be allergic to milk sugar (lactose), which is also found naturally in milk.

The sensitivity to milk sugar is not involving the body’s immune system. The sensitivity is instead due to having too small amounts of the enzyme in the intestine, which splits the lactose, so you to a greater or lesser degree can not absorb milk. The symptoms are abdominal pain and diarrhea.

Hypersensitivity to milk sugar is also known as lactose-malabsorption or lactose-intolerance.

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First of all, wheat allergy is not the same as coeliac disease.

• Hay Fever
• Itching in the mouth
• Hives
• Asthma
• Vomiting
• Diarrhoea
• Or, at worst, anaphylactic shock
  

Physical and psychological reactions to allergy

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What causes wheat allergy?

Like all other allergies, wheat allergy is caused by an immune system malfunction. This malfunction causes your immune system to recognize certain proteins in wheat as harmful, and to protect your body against these harmful proteins, your immune system will start to produce antibodies (immunoglobulin E (IgE)).

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These antibodies will then try to neutralize the wheat proteins the next time you eat or get in contact with them by producing histamine and other chemicals.

It is the high concentration of histamine that causes the allergic symptoms such as red itchy eyes, a running nose and other symptoms.


This type of allergy is also known as instant allergy because the symptoms show immediately or within a few hours after you get in contact with the allergen.

The symptoms may be

• itching in the mouth,
• hay fever,
• hives,
• asthma,
• vomiting,
• diarrhoea
• or at worst anaphylactic shock.

Some will only have symptoms if they are making efforts, such as running, just after they have eaten or have been exposed to the allergen.

Allergies to wheat is not the same as coeliac disease, read more about coeliac disease in the “what is coeliac disease?”

The protein, you form antibodies to, can be gluten, but it may also be other proteins in wheat.

If you have wheat allergy, you may well eat the foods that are naturally free of gluten, because they are completely free of wheat proteins. It is not certain however, that you can withstand the so-called gluten-free products, which are special products, where the gluten content is reduced. Here there are still very small quantities of wheat protein left, which may be enough to trigger allergic symptoms in a person with wheat allergy.

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If you have wheat allergy and will test you up with gluten-free products, it is therefore important that you first speak with your doctor.

It is most common to have allergies to one cereal only – mostly wheat. Therefore you do not have to avoid rye, barley, oats, corn, millet or buckwheat, unless you are allergic to these corn types.

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