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Detecting

Filed Under Food Allergy 

About 1% of all adults have a . It is also possible for you to have a food as well as a pollen allergy. It has been found that many people who are allergic to one allergen are also allergic to other allergens.

If you cannot pinpoint your allergy to pollen, dust mites or your pet, then you may consider if it is a food allergy that you are suffering from.

It is easy to detect for a if the specific food is one that you do not eat everyday. For instance, you may well have an allergy to shellfish if you noticed rash and itchy symptoms right after eating it.

Finding out food allergy to common items that you eat everyday will be more difficult. You may need to do this by a process of elimination. Note down the common food allergens of most people. They are usually wheat, eggs, seafood like prawns, milk, preserved foods, peanuts, MSG, yeast and corn. Pick one item from this list, eliminate it completely and note your reactions. If your allergic symptoms disappear, you have just found the allergen. If you have not, you move on to the next item on your list to cross check against.

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