Allergy

A true allergy based on a reaction of the body’s immune system to substances to be harmless, mostly (Glycol) protein (protein). Allergic reactions are never the first contact with a food or other allergens. Only a multiple - sometimes years - contact with the allergen causes an awareness of the organism.

Has an awareness that, already rich from small amounts to trigger symptoms, which for the sick - depending on the affected food group - a more or less heavy burden in everyday life. Indeed, the main form of therapy is the avoidance of symptom mauls ender food. In the case of celery like the Easel tag still relatively little influence. If an allergy but milk or wheat protein, which are affects the quality of life massively.

Not everything is an allergy
Pollen allergies can go hand in hand with cross allergies. Persons, for example, in a birch pollen allergy, tolerated (especially during the pollen time), many apple varieties. The reason is that both in birch pollen as well as some apple varieties similar protein ingredients happen to the immune system with the formation of antibodies reacted. Another example, house dust-mite allergy, crustaceans and mollusks (mussels, snails,) are not tolerated.

Pseudo allergen causes no immune response against. To resolve similar symptoms, but it is no formation of antibodies associated. And it is precisely because no antibodies are formed, the diagnosis in the case of Pseudo allergen particularly difficult. Pseudo allergen source of protein do not necessarily have connections. Well-known examples are allergy-like reactions to sail cyclic acid (an ingredient in aspirin, but also a natural ingredient in some berries) or bio organic amines (such as histamine).

Food intolerance on the other hand, is based mostly on an enzyme defect. It can be congenital or acquired course of life. The most common is probably the lactose intolerance (milk sugars), whose prevalence in Europe by experts at around 10 to 15%. Through an absolute or relative deficiency of the enzyme lactose, the dual sugar lactose in the small intestine is not divided and therefore not absorbed. As a result, digestive complaints are such as flatulence or diarrhea.