Considering how much Americans love to eat, it may surprise you to learn that more than 30 million of us suffer from food allergies. A food allergy is a chronic condition in which your body’s immune system treats a foreign substance as a dangerous invader and causes a reaction in the body to get Read More
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Allergies: Do You Know The Symptoms?
Allergies are an overreaction by the immune system to a perceived threat, which are called allergens. You could be allergic to substances in your environment or certain foods. You could also be allergic to stinging insect bites. Allergy testing, namely the skin prick test, can test for 50 known Read More
How to Interpret Your Food Allergy Test Results
The gold standard for food allergy testing is the oral food challenge, which is a medically supervised, gradual process of introducing a food allergen to a patient in order to diagnose or rule out a food allergy. The doctor may also use an Immunoglobulin (IgE) blood test, which measures the Read More