Food allergy is a medical state of reaction wherein the immune system overreacts to certain food items that results in inflammation of the body tissues. It is a hypersensitive reaction in which the child’s immune system generates multiple antibodies named IgE as a response to foreign proteins. This indicates that every time the child eats such food items, the immune system produces IgE antibodies. It is these antibodies that are termed as allergens and are responsible for the allergic symptoms when they become adequate in number.
Due to this kind of reaction, food allergy is categorized as type 1 allergy. In children, this allergy takes place who are under four years of age. In real, food allergies are rarely found in children. According to a research, hardly 3 in 100 toddlers actually suffer from this allergy and most of them [...]
