AllergiesThe modern Western diet and way of life can undermine the immune system of susceptible people, causing a wide variety of "allergic" symptons, and many more conditions which do not respond to conventional treatments. The tendency to run in families is very high, and the physical symptons can often severely affect the quality of life of the sufferer.
Acute food allergy is where the reaction is almost immediate and the cause obvious eg. Peanut allergy. Symptons include acute swelling of the tongue, mouth and throat in very severe cases.
Milder reactions may involve just a slight tingling on the tongue or in the mouth after eating apples or stoned fruit. Other food allergies can affect almost any part of the body giving rise to diseases such as eczema, asthma and urticaria.
If the symptons of an allergy appear slowly, such as asthma, glue ear, constant nasal congestion and nettle rash , the culprit food is often something that the patient may have eaten daily for years without realizing the connection.
Food allergens can be absorbed into the blood and carried to any part of the body. Theses blood-borne allergens can react with mast cells in any susceptible organ. In some patients the reaction may take place after exercise and after also eating the culprit food, a condition called exercise -induced urticaria exercise-induced asthma.
Allergy and nutritional therapy identifies the foods and substances that cause these problems.
