All About Food Intolerance and Food Allergies

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Food Intolerance Dont Mistake It To Be Food
Allergy

• Food allergy and food intolerance are very
  different from each other when it comes to their
  characteristics but are yet very identical. That
  is why people generally tend to feel that they
  have food allergy when actually they have food
  intolerance and vice versa.

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• The main problem is that the symptoms of both
  these ailments are identical and somewhat similar
  and thus, people generally go a different
  treatment path than what they should actually
  follow. The consequences of food allergy can be
  grave if proper action is not taken immediately
  and the best and supposedly the only way to stay
  away from the danger posed by food allergy is to
  stay away from foods that your body dislikes and
  in most cases it is peanut, peanut butter, tree
  nuts, walnuts, milk and so on.

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• When you have food allergies, your body takes the
  food that you are eating as foreign invaders and
  thus, produces antibodies to defend the immune
  system and the body. These antibodies when
  fighting with the protein from the food you are
  eating causes reaction which is uncalled for.
  Food intolerance is something in which your body
  is incapable of digesting or acting normally with
  selected few food items like in the case of milk,
  when you have it, your stomach may get bloated or
  you feel constipated. This is because of less
  production of lactase enzyme in your body which
  is needed to digest the milk fully and hence, the
  reaction. This cannot be called food allergy and
  thus, you can notice that these two similar
  problems are identical in many ways and hence, is
  the reason behind misunderstanding that people
  have regarding these two foods related ailments.

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• To keep safe from both these problems, stay away
  from food items your body inhibits as that is the
  best and the only way to get rid of such unwanted
  reaction from the body.
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