Food Intolerance
Allergy involves more than 50-70% of populations in these recent years. Nowadays, allergy becomes more complex than skin allergy or respiratory allergy. It comes to food allergy and toxin allergy, which results in the body resistance.
Acute allergy and delay type of energy make the diagnosis more difficult. Before, allergy is often found in children and they will get better as they grow up. But now, allergy is often found in old people. Pollutions and chemicals can be found in everything in our daily life including vegetables and meats. Those are foreign antigens that our body tends to revolve itself to be able to tolerate them.
Allergy occurs as a body sensor when there are toxins entering into the body. If the body can tolerate and get it of them, allergy stops. Otherwise, the body will generate chronic allergy or autoimmune disease when the immune systems attack their own tissues as they lose ability to distinguish own cells and foreign antigens.
Our body is attacked by foreign antigens mostly through gastrointestinal tracts. Our GI tracts play a crucial role as a first defence to foreign antigens, contaminated substances, and toxins from food as it contains many lymphatic systems. Food industry needs to use some chemicals to preserve foods from spoilage to serve tons of world populations. Accordingly, allergy tends to be found in people in younger ages or even in babies.
When most of the things that we consume become antigens, our GI tract cannot digest them all and some residues remain in our body causing intestinal inflammation, leaky guts, or ulcers. Our immune systems in the bloodstream also need to work harder and longer when an amount of pathogenic bacteria is way more than an amount of our normal flora leading to leakage of germs into our bloodstream. If the immune systems are not able to remove them all out, a Delay type of Allergy occurs. Symptoms of a Delay type of Allergy are Migraine, chronic muscle pain, facial rash, acne, dermatitis, and Urticaria. Mostly, reasons of food allergy are unknown; therefore, special lab tests can help you out.
The best way to treat allergy is allergen avoidance. To find every allergen you are allergy to is not easy. Foods can be contaminated with many types of toxins and the symptoms of allergy may not show up right after consuming. Therefore, strengthening the immune systems to be able to fight allergens is the important way prevent allergy. Receiving an adequate amount of vitamins and minerals, drinking 7-8 glasses of water a day, exercising at least 30 minutes a day, getting enough sleep, and having good digestive systems with no constipation helps strengthen the immune systems.
Allergy testing is developing from Prick testing to Blood testing for allergens. The blood testing can be varied including testing for acute allergy or delayed allergy—food Intolerance, testing for skin allergens, respiratory allergens, GI tracts allergens, toxins. Our treatment pays attention to immune strengths as much as vitamins, nutrition, and medications. Further details can be consulted with our doctors.