As with any IgE food allergy, avoidance of eggs is the current best strategy for managing egg allergy. Of course, it’s not as simple as foregoing scrambled eggs or an omelet in the morning. Egg is an ingredient in many foods including mayonnaise, custard, and many baked goods. For a person with egg allergies, readingContinue reading “What Can I Eat with Egg Allergy?”
Category Archives: Allergies
What Can I Eat with Milk Allergy?
Milk Allergy versus Lactose Intolerance One of the top 8 food allergens is cow’s milk. This allergy is common in babies/toddlers and some children outgrow the allergy by school age, but others remain allergic to milk throughout life. Milk allergy is often confused with lactose intolerance, because both condition require limiting or avoiding consuming dairyContinue reading “What Can I Eat with Milk Allergy?”
Food Allergies
The second step on the atopic march, and the one for which we will spend the most time is food allergies. A food allergy occurs when the immune system produces IgE in response to a protein in a food. This causes an allergic reaction that includes symptoms like digestive issues, hives, swelling, and anaphylaxis. FoodContinue reading “Food Allergies”
Allergies and Migraine
Allergies and migraine headaches are two increasingly common conditions. There also appears to be a link between them as people with allergies and/or asthma are more likely to have migraines and vice versa. The severity of each also is linked the severity of the other. So is there a a common cause of these twoContinue reading “Allergies and Migraine”
Mast Cells
The next step on our journey of understanding allergies is to look closer at mast cells and why they are important in managing allergies. What Are Mast Cells? Mast Cells are prevalent in tissues that interact with the outside world, respiratory, gastrointestinal, genitourinary systems and the skin. Mast cells hold multiple inflammatory chemicals, including histamine,Continue reading “Mast Cells”
Natural Antihistamines
We saw previously that there are a few different types of cells involved in allergic reactions and that histamine is the main chemical driver of allergic reactions. In preventing allergies, we look at Th1 and Th2 balance, managing histamine, and mast cell stabilization. In this post we will focus on the Th1 and Th2 balanceContinue reading “Natural Antihistamines”
Allergies and Histamine
If you are one of the millions of people who have allergies, you may wonder what is going on in your body and if there is anything you can do besides avoid what you’re allergic to and take antihistamines. Well, at Integrated Harmonies, we want to help answer those questions for you. And over theContinue reading “Allergies and Histamine”
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