Glance of food allergies

Food allergies

Are common among children, but whit proper care and attention, food allergies can be managed, and there is no reason why your child cannot grow up healthily and happily.

Although food allergies can pose a serious problem, only 6% of children are affected, some of these allergies can be avoided or outgrown, although recent findings suggest that fewer children are out growing allergies to milk and eggs.

Toddlers are more likely to develop food allergies than adults because allergies usually occur early I life when the immune and digestive systems are not mature.

Many mix up food allergies with food intolerance, an allergy is an immune system response symptoms can occur just a few minutes after eating the trigger food.

Food intolerance, on the other hand is a reaction to food that does not involve the immune system.

Symptoms caused by food allergies can very greatly, they can differ in severity, timing body location and amount of food eaten, allergic reactions to certain food can be mildly irritating, but they can be life threatening in some children and symptom appear within 10 minutes to 2 hours after eating the allergenic food.