Hillary Israeli
October 14th 05, 06:39 PM
In >,
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.
--
Hillary Israeli, VMD
Lafayette Hill/PA/USA/Earth
"Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it is
too dark to read." --Groucho Marx
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.
--
Hillary Israeli, VMD
Lafayette Hill/PA/USA/Earth
"Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it is
too dark to read." --Groucho Marx