Airborne Reactions More fear than actual peanut dust swirls through the air concerning airborne peanut reactions. As I explain in earlier article, many people...
Food Allergies - Finding Peanut Because of this risk of severe reactions with even minute peanut exposures, people with peanut allergy must play a never-ending game of hid...
The Nature Allergic Of Peanuts Although “peanut allergy” isn’t exactly synonymous with “food allergy,” peanut allergy exemplifies the food allergy phenomenon in a nutshel...
Airborne Allergens Can peanut dust make you sick? If someone’s eating a peanut butter sandwich next to you in the cafeteria, can that make you sick? What abou...
Food Allergies - Contact Reactions When AIDS first captured the headlines, mobs of the irrational and uninformed gave their fears free reign. They imagined the worst possible...
Allergens In Food One of the main characteristics that distinguishes food allergens from other allergens, such as pollen, is that you generally eat food alle...
Food Allergies - Common Culprits When you begin to explore the wide variety of foods that people consume all around the globe, you’re likely to be surprised at the number o...
Food allergy - Common Signs and Symptoms Food allergy may present with a wide array of signs and symptoms. (The term present is doctor lingo for how a condition shows up in your bo...
Sudden Rise In Food Allergies If you grew up in the ’60s or ’70s, you may never have heard the term “food allergy.” Your classmates and playmates probably were able to e...
Food Allergies - Finding Out What’s Wrong A food allergy is not just difficulty digesting a food but rather the immune system’s overreaction to a specific food that sparks a reactio...