| Your body's immune system will respond to normally | | | | Foods are a source of allergic reactions in many |
| harmless substances that cause it irritation. The result | | | | people, especially children. Children are most likely to |
| of this action is called an allergy. One of the most | | | | experience food allergies and sometime grow out of |
| troubling problems a person can endure, it can take | | | | the problem with age but others may suffer food |
| time to determine the cause of the allergy and the | | | | allergies all their life. Food allergies can be very life |
| proper treatment. Allergies are very common, even | | | | threatening in severe cases. |
| becoming the topic of conversation among friends. | | | | There are eight types of foods that are responsible |
| Allergic symptoms can appear at any age. Sensitivity | | | | for 90 percent of all the food allergy problems. Soy |
| to allergies is passed from generation to generation in | | | | products, dairy products and peanut products are the |
| some families. Boys are more often the victim of this | | | | most common types of food allergies in children. |
| problem than girls but allergies are common in children | | | | Children often grow out of the problem as they get |
| whose parents are allergy sufferers. | | | | older. |
| Allergy symptoms are longer lasting than those of | | | | Some people have life threatening reactions after |
| the common cold. A cold may last for seven to ten | | | | eating or drinking trigger foods. These foods are not |
| days but the allergies are around for a much longer | | | | tolerated by the body's immune system and are |
| time. Symptoms of allergic rhinitis include sneezing, a | | | | attacked. These antibodies are so severe that the |
| congested and runny nose, itching eyes and nose as | | | | person is made very ill and must seek medical |
| well as puffy reddened eyes. Constant coughing is a | | | | attention right away. These attacks must be avoided |
| symptom of a form of asthma which can develop | | | | by being aware of the foods you eat and drink and |
| from severe allergies. | | | | carefully staying away from those trigger foods. |