by Lisa Fuller
Coping with food intolerance and allergies. Most IBS sufferers will identify with the following, but is the cause really just stress or is it a food intolerance? The symptoms are particularly uncomfortable and can caus...read more
by keisi j
Thanks to the incessant return of allergies year after year, through my own quest of trial and error I have discovered the road to relief. There are several things a person can do and also things one should avoid when seek...read more
Anaphylaxis is an extremely serious and often deadly allergic reaction, which can occur as a result of exposure to any of the following: foods, insect stings, latex, medications, and exercise. Yes, similar to asthma sympto...read more
Following seven years of pain and a mis-diagnosis of Irritable Bowel Syndrome, I finally realised I was in fact dairy intolerant a couple of years ago. I already knew I was allergic to caffeine and on top of being a stric...read more
by Nancy Berman
Multiple Severe Food Allergies and the School-Age Child When my son Ben started kindergarten five years ago, I was pleased that an allergy protocol was already in place at his school. Students were not permitted to brin...read more
by Nancy Canyon
Thirty years ago, when I was pregnant with my daughter, I was plagued with dry, itchy red patches on my face. It wasn't until my daughter was a year old and we had moved to a mini-farm and bought a goat, that I realized m...read more
As many of you have recently heard, wheat and yeast has been questioned as a trigger for autistism or autistic characteristics in children. My son was very sick with asthma, high fevers and migraines for his first 2 years...read more
Living with food allergies requires a lifestyle much different than the normal omnivores around us. There is a keen difference between food intolerance and food allergies. A food intolerance is more common, producing undes...read more
Many people may know that MSG (Monosodium Glutamate)is added to food to enhance the "flavor" of the food. What they may not know is that they could very well be allergic to this highly toxic substance. There is a wide ra...read more
If you're the type of person who wants to know WHY certain foods are good/bad for your body, I highly recommend you get a copy of "Foods that Harm, Foods that Heal" which is put out by Reader's Digest. Hardback and paperba...read more
Are the things we eat daily really doing our bodies any good? I recently discovered that I am lactose and gluten intolerant. This means that I cannot eat milk, cheese, butter, yoghurt, cream, most sauces, wheat, bread, ...read more
My granddaughter was being sick and had terrible tummy pains so the doctor admitted her into hospital for tests. She was about eight to nine months old and loved eating a flavored wot-sit and became addicted to them.She su...read more
by A. Major
Food intolerance often develops due to an immature or ineffective digestive system. This inability to digest foods creates havoc on our bodies; allowing undigested food particles to leak from the intestinal wall into the ...read more
by David Cowley
Help I Am Allergic To Wheat. If you have Wheat Allergy then you suffer from Allergies Type 1, also called Contact Allergies. The allergic reaction to wheat intolerance is caused by one or more of the 4 main groups of pro...read more
by Danielle M
Allergies and intolerances have been researched for years yet only a small fraction of people actually realise they have one. Wheat and Gluten are allergies are probably the most common yet many of us go years before reali...read more
by Rafael Lopez
Many health professionals believe allergies are psychologically triggered. I partially agreed because I think there are three major causes for an allergic reaction but all of them are related to one single problem: decreas...read more
Managing and dealing with food allergies is not as complicated as most people assume. With today's science and technological advancements people suffering from most food allergies have a variety of alternatives to ch...read more
I have read articles dealing with intolerance to foods and food allergies. When I read these articles there is always someone that will say that it is easy to deal with these. Well I have discovered that is really is har...read more
I knew I had a problem with eating soy. That one wasn't very difficult for me to give up. I could still eat sushi; I just couldn't dunk it in soy sauce. No matter, it was still delicious. However, dairy oh, that one is ha...read more
The folks needing to bone up on this subject are parents and the children affected by a food allergy. I know. I was the only kid I knew with a severe allergy to wheat. And I heard a lot of advice growing up. Mostly it was ...read more
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