To eat or not to eat? Food allergy and solutions

There are foods to which the immune system of allergy patients reacts as if it is harmful to them for some reason. If the given food or nutrient enters the body, hypersensitivity reaction occurs, histamine and many other mediators are released, which cause vasodilation and increased vascular permeability, i.e., interstitial edema and swelling of the skin, usually accompanied by itching. On the other hand, the allergy itself can develop over a long period of time and manifest itself in several ways: with diarrhea, stomach complaints, hives, other skin symptoms, etc., but typical symptoms can also be dizziness, nausea, headache, and isolated swelling of the lips and eyes. Complaints often appear only in attacks and come back again and again, but it is important to emphasize that this disease occurs more often among those who have allergic patients among their relatives.

There are more typical foods, so-called mediators, unpleasant reactions to these occur more widely, such as milk, eggs, fish, crabs, shellfish, nuts, hazelnuts, chocolate, tomatoes, honey, soy, strawberries, kiwi, but it is also not uncommon that certain preservatives, flavors, symptoms appear after the dye enters the body.