Asthma and Food AllergiesDespite advances in the treatment of asthma over the past few decades, more than 200 children in the U.S. die each year from severe asthma attacks. Now researchers believe that in at least some of these cases, the children were suffering not just from asthma, but from asthma as a symptom of a food allergy.
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| Food AllergiesAdverse food reactions can be classified into 2 categories. The first is hypersensitivity that is an immunologically mediated adverse food reaction and is unrelated to any physiologic effect of the food or food additive. These reactions include disorders mediated by immunoglobulin E (IgE) antibodies (eg, IgE-mediated reaction to peanuts), which occur more immediately, and others resulting from non-IgE mechanisms (eg, non-IgE-mediated reactions such as protein-induced enterocolitis syndrome), which generally take several hours to appear clinically. |
