Detecting Food Allergies
Detecting food allergies can be difficult. Dr Crook's article on Food Allergy gives an overview of obvious food and hidden food allergies. Links to various diets and further information is listed after the article.
Food Allergy
By Dr Crook
Allergy to a specific food or foods can cause you or your child to develop symptoms of various sourts. Yet, you may not recogn9ize such an allergy unless you carefully search for it.
| 1. TYPES OF FOOD ALLERGY | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| a) Obvious Food Allergy: As the name implies, you know when you're bothered by this sort of an allergy. Such an allergy is often caused by relatively uncommon foods, such as fish, strawberries, cashew nuts or lobster. However, it may be cased by any food, including egg, citrus, or chocolate. Obvious food allergy often makes you break out in a rash, sneeze, wheeze, swell or give you a headache. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| b) Hidden or Unsuspected Food Allergy:* This sort of allergy is usually caused by foods you eat every day, including milk, corn, wheat, legumes, chocolate, citrus, egg and sugar. You seem to develop symptoms from eating these foods gradually ... so gradually that the relationship of your symptoms to the foods is rarely recognized. Hidden allergy is often caused by your favorite food or foods. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2. SYMPTOMS ** WHICH MAY BE FOUND IN ADULTS
AND CHILDREN WITH HIDDEN FOOD ALLERGIES
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* Since immunological explanations of these food related symptoms often cannot be identified, nay physicians refer to them as "adverse food reactions", "food hypersensitivities" or "food intolerances"
** See also "The Allergic Tension-Fatigue Syndrome in You and Allergy by Dr. Crook.
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Parents of Allergic Children Articles
Detecting Hidden Food Allergies. An article written by Dr William Crook about food allergies.
Digestion, Protein Deficiencies and Allergies. An article by Salvatore Anthony D'Onofrio.
Testimonial. A testimonial about a child and food allergies.
"Maybe It Was Something I Ate" The Headache-Nutrition Connection by Susan E. Brown, Ph.D.
Another Treatment for Multiple Food Allergies by Dr. William G. Crook
Long Term Success Reported with Diet Restricting Gluten and Casein by Bernard Rimland, Ph.D.
Protecting Your Infant and Toddler From Food Sensitivities by Ronald Lancfranchi, D.C. PhD., Patricia Deuster, Ph.D. and Russell Jaffee, M.D. Ph.D.
How Do You Determine If Your Child Has Cow's Milk Allergy/Food Sensitivity? Part 11. by Ronal Lanfranchi, D. C., Ph.D., Patricia Deuster, Ph.D., and Russell Jaffe, M.D., Ph.D.
Immnodeficiency, gastrointestinal Candidiasis, wheat and diary sensitivity, abnormal urine arabinose and autism: a case study. by Dr Shaw et al.
Early Descriptions of Systemic and Nervous Reactions Caused By Foods
Links to PAC pages
Food Allergies and Intolerances
When Dietary Changes Make Symptoms Worse - by Kelly Dorfman
Web Links
Allergic To Good Health?- An article on WebMDHealth on food allergies
Allergy, Sensitivity & Environmental Health Association
A checklist of symptoms for food allergies by the Food Sensitivity & Environmental Health Association
Children with Milk, Egg and other Food Allergies - a personal web site with links, recipes and information.
Dr. Lendon Smith - Milk the almost perfect food
Eating Without Cassein - information for people who must avoid cassein
Food Allergy Symptom Checklist - Immuno Labs
Failsafe - an Australian website that offers an alternative to the Feingold program
Food Allergy Network - information about food allergies, including tips and alerts
Food Allergy Chat - chat area for those with food allergies.
Food Allergy Freebies - information and links
Food Allergy Testing - a site with information on testing for Food Allergies.
International Food Information Council
Mastering Food Allergies - information about food allergies, wheat free diets, candida and more. Recipes available on the site and titles of recipe books to explore
Online Resources for People with Food Allergies and Intollerances - recipes for people with allergies
Allergies - by Dr. Stoll