Sentences with phrase «ingestion by allergy»
An allergen - free peanut would help reduce the risk of accidental ingestion by allergy sufferers.
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Underlying conditions for increased availability may be an endogenous histamine overproduction caused by allergies, mastocytosis, bacterias, gastrointestinal bleeding, or increased exogenous ingestion of histidine or histamine by food or alcohol.
Since many people associate rashes with allergies, it's not a far stretch when people call dermatitis herpetiformis a form of «gluten allergy,» although it's not a true allergy — like celiac disease, dermatitis herpetiformis is autoimmune in nature (indicating an attack by your own immune system in response to gluten ingestion).
Usually true food allergies, also called Adverse Food Reaction (AFR), are caused by immune response to a main diet ingredient or something that is fed very frequently, not an incidental or occasional ingestion.
Common causes include ingestion of a foreign object that gets stuck in the intestines (sticks, bones), a food allergy or intolerance related to a change in diet (also often accompanied by skin itch), and the ingestion of toxins such as an insecticide.
A classic example of a food allergy is anaphylactic shock seen after ingestion of peanuts or after being stung by bees: as soon as the person or animal comes in contact with the allergen, their airway closes and they can't breathe.