Food Allergies are an Increasing Global Epidemic – MM1504
Food allergy is defined as an adverse immune response towards food proteins or as a form of a food intolerance associated with a hypersensitive immune response. Many reported food reactions are not allergic but are in fact intolerances. Food allergy often presents to clinicians as a symptom complex. According to clinical presentations and allergy testing, there are three types of food allergy: immunoglobulin E (IgE) mediated, mixed (IgE/Non-IgE), and non-IgE mediated (cellular, delayed type hypersensitivity).
Modern Medicine – April 2015
