Sentences with phrase «harmless food protein»

Your body starts to look at food as a foreign invader and triggers an immune response to a harmless food protein.

Infection with the suspected culprit, a reovirus, could cause the immune system to react to gluten as if it was a dangerous pathogen instead of a harmless food protein, an international team of researchers reports April 7 in Science.

«A sufficient supply of vitamin A to the milk producers, i.e. the cows, could counteract this effect in which a harmless food protein is converted into a milk allergen,» says Hufnagl.

These types of allergies occur when the body's immune system mistakes a harmless food protein for a threat and attacks it as it would normally do with a bacterium or a virus.

Food allergy If your child has a food allergy, it means her body's immune system responds to normally harmless food proteins in a way that can cause a mild or severe reaction, either immediately or within a couple hours.

A food allergy (in which the body's immune system responds to normally harmless food proteins) can cause mild or severe reactions - immediately or within a couple of hours.

Not exact matches

No one knows why allergy numbers are rising, but some researchers theorize that the rise of antibiotics, sanitation and vaccines has caused our immune systems to attack harmless proteins in our foods.

When the immune system overreacts, immunoglobulin E (IgE) antibodies are produced against substances or allergens in the environment that are otherwise harmless — pollens, house dust, animal hair and specific food proteins.

Lactose intolerance is an uncomfortable but harmless digestive reaction to a sugar in foods made from milk that does not involve the immune system whereas milk allergy is the result of exposure to milk protein.

A food allergy happens when the body reacts against harmless proteins found in foods.

Food sensitivities are reactions to normally harmless proteins in the diet and can occur with a cat of any age.