Food Allergies and Intolerances
Food allergy or Food intolerance? What is the difference?
Food allergy is serious and has immediate effect while food intolerance is not.
In case of an allergy; the body reacts in its different parts when a certain food enters it: eyes, nose, lips, throat, chest, gut, skin, or blood pressure. The reaction may be from the immune system.
In case of food intolerance; the reaction of the body is less serious, takes more time, different body reactions and consequences occur, like bloating, stomach cramps, water retention…
One can be intolerant to several different foods and or have Fructose, Glucose, Wheat, Alcohol, Yeast, and or Histamine intolerance among others.
A Food Intolerance Assessment is required, it consists of 3 checks:
Digestive check,
Diet check,
Symptoms check.
Once done, personalized recommendations and worksheets to monitor, alleviate, and reassess the symptoms are elaborated.
When people with celiac disease eat gluten (a protein found in wheat, rye and barley), their body mounts an immune response that attacks the small intestine. These attacks lead to damage on the villi, small fingerlike projections that line the small intestine, that promote nutrient absorption. When the villi get damaged, nutrients cannot be absorbed properly into the body.
https://celiac.org/about-celiac-disease/what-is-celiac-disease/
Guidance, gluten free diets (meal planning for kids & adults), hidden sources of gluten, recipes and substitutions are provided.
Candidiasis - Candida is the scientific name for yeast. It is a fungus that lives almost everywhere, including in your body. Usually, your immune system keeps yeast under control. If you are sick or taking antibiotics, it can multiply and cause an infection.
Yeast infections affect different parts of the body in different ways:
- Thrush is a yeast infection that causes white patches in your mouth.
- Candida esophagitis is thrush that spreads to your esophagus, the tube that takes food from your mouth to your stomach. It can make it hard or painful to swallow.
- Women can get vaginal yeast infections causing vaginitis.
- Yeast infections of the skin cause itching and rashes.
- Yeast infections in your bloodstream can be life-threatening.
Guidance, Foods to avoid, plus diets are provided.
Lactose intolerance is when a person has symptoms due to a decreased ability to digest lactose, a sugar found in dairy products. Those affected vary in the amount of lactose they can tolerate before symptoms develop. Symptoms may include abdominal pain, bloating, diarrhea, gas, and nausea. These symptoms typically start thirty minutes to two hours after eating or drinking milk-based food. Their severity typically depends on the amount a person eats or drinks. Lactose intolerance does not cause damage to the gastrointestinal tract.
Lactose intolerance is due to the lack of the enzyme lactase in the small intestines to break lactose down into glucose and galactose. There are four types: primary, secondary, developmental, and congenital. Primary lactose intolerance occurs as the amount of lactase declines as people age. Secondary lactose intolerance is due to injury to the small intestine such as from infection, celiac disease, inflammatory bowel disease, or other diseases.
Guidance, and dairy free recipes and substitutions are provided.
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