Gastrointestinal allergy can be classified according to the triggering antigen, the mechanism of immune reaction, or the anatomic site of reaction.
Gastrointestinal allergy may be triggered by food components (e.g. food proteins or glycoproteins), and by other antigen antibody reaction to (e.g. bacterial disease, viral, fungal, and worm antigen), drugs and chemicals, (more…)
Do you have a food allergy? A recent study by the U.S. government has concluded that data from the past on food allergy was not ...
Having a food intolerance test is becoming increasingly popular nowadays. This is because the symptoms of indigestion, stomach ...
Food allergies are becoming popular topics in the news at the moment. Based on a recent report by the CDC, the number of people ...
Cow’s milk is the most frequently encountered food allergen in infancy, and milk allergy is often the earliest indicator that a ...
Childhood is the period of life when allergies to food are most prevalent. Food allergy is much more common in babies and young ...
Human body treated all of the food that we ate, either plants or animals, as foreign substances. It is body immune system’s function to protect us from foreign material’s intrusion which may causes harmful to us. Then why does our immune system not oppose and refuse foreign materials that we consume as food?”
Naturally, if our body totally reject those foods which get into our body, we could not survive! Then, what is it that allows for food to plainly evade the roadblock of immune cells and be taken up into our bodies? In the final process, food become an integral part of our tissues and organs, and then be used as fuel for essential body processes. Research has begun to reveal part of the answer to this important issue in our body complex immune system question: the complex series of events known as oral tolerance. (more…)
B cells The main function of B cells is to produce antibodies. Antibodies are complex molecules produced by the immune syste ...
Antibodies which are also known as immunoglobulin are found in our blood and other bodily fluids. Antibodies are used as a mechan ...
Gastrointestinal allergy can be classified according to the triggering antigen, the mechanism of immune reaction, or the anatom ...
Allergens are the trigger for human body allergic reaction. It is one of human immunological process to react for invader subst ...
It is estimated that more than 12 millions of American are having food allergy. About 4 percent of adults are having this disease ...