50% of allergies - self-deception!

Millions of Russians have any allergies to different foods. Or is it only seems that way? Scientists estimate that up to 50% of the so-called food allergies those actually are not.

You can not eat oranges, walnuts, peanuts or cherry jam? You can consider yourself a real lucky compared to the 18-year-old Dane American from North Carolina. The guy can not eat or drink milk, eggs, peanuts, salmon, chicken, tomatoes, garlic and many other products. By God, it is much easier to call what he can eat.

But Dana is a real alimentary allergy , One of its most severe cases. What sways many other allergies, then 50% of their dietary restrictions are far-fetched. Such information is contained in an article published in Journal of the American Medical Association.

First, a significant portion of people who consider themselves victims of allergies, put this diagnosis on their own. Behind allergic reaction   they took banal belching, heartburn or indigestion. The other "enlightened" doctors, misinterpreted test results food allergy . As a result, people life avoid products that are not able to cause any harm to their health. Positive skin   test allergy It does not necessarily indicate an allergy.

How do skin   allergy test ? Apply a small scratch on the arm, and then the wound is subjected to the effects of a food product. If exhibit characteristic reaction, human allergy is fixed. However, according to experts, the accuracy of the test does not exceed 30%. Already, American scientists are working on new guidance for doctors to certain allergens were significantly more accurate.

Another popular allergy test   - Analysis of the blood serum, in which antibodies are sought to certain foods. And this test, too, can not be considered reliable. If in previous years you quietly eating peanuts, but now analysis on serum says that you are allergic to peanuts, the analysis, most likely wrong.

Is there a more reliable method? Experts believe that such can be called "oral test meal". In other words, the patient should be under medical supervision to eat a small amount of "questionable" foods. The best thing that a person does not even know what it is checked for   food allergy And it can make myself a reaction. Alas, this is the most time-consuming method, and therefore - the most unpopular.

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