FAO Beth Kevles

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arachne wrote:

* The difference between an allergy and an intolerance is basically
* semantics. It's tending towards allergies being things that yield hives
* and possible anaphylaxis, whereas intolerances yield stomach pain,
* failure to thrive, bleeding in the gut, behavioral changes, etc.
*
*well, not really. an allergy is the immune system producing ige antibodies
*to a food protein which it incorrectly views as a poison.

I'm with you...

*an intolerance is a build up of the chemicals in certain food (like amines
*or salicylates). once the body reaches it's threshold of the chemical,
*intolerance symptoms can occur.

Not necessarily. You can be intolerant of, for example, lactose... and if
your intolerance were severe enough, it could become life-threatening
(if, for example, you were an infant, suffering diarrhea and large-bowel
bleeding)!

-h.

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"Hillary Israeli" wrote in message
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Not necessarily. You can be intolerant of, for example, lactose... and if
your intolerance were severe enough, it could become life-threatening
(if, for example, you were an infant, suffering diarrhea and large-bowel
bleeding)!

ah, yes. you are right! i guess i mean it doesn't produce anaphylaxis.
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DS2 26th September 2005

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