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Allergy to Nuts (Part 2)
2. How to deal with an allergy to nuts?
There is no specific medicine to treat allergies to nuts. The improved treatment, without a doubt it’s as simple as avoiding eating all foods or products containing nuts.
We must bear in mind that some people are so sensitive that not only should avoid eating them but also unable to take foods that are made with the same instruments that are used in the processing or manufacturing products that contain them. In these circumstances plays a key role food labeling.
They also may have an allergic reaction just by smell or touch them with skin. If we have a child with nut allergy is the vital importance of information on such an allergy to any person you let the child (school, family, friends), even in bars and restaurants when we eat away from home.
3. How to read a label for a diet without nuts?
If you have a child allergic to nuts, the key is to avoid giving foods or products containing such products, it is essential to read all labels very well. Make sure that the food label does not include these ingredients and avoid them: Almonds, Brazil nuts, Cashew, Hazelnuts, Sunflower seeds, Chestnuts, Nuts, Peanuts, Pistachios, and etc.
New Enemies of Allergy
Climate change increases the risk of allergies. New allergens: nickel, latex, DMF and Anisakis. What to do when the cause is not detected.
Allergy is a hypersensitivity reaction of the body at the onset of a particular substance is called the allergen. The best known are food allergies, to pollen, an insect bite or existing dust mites, but there are also more unusual cases such as allergy to light, wood or cold.
Changes in technology and habits in society cause an allergen little present it becomes massive in a short time, as has happened in the case of latex.
Allergies and Global Warming
In the XXI World Allergy Congress held last year in Buenos Aires is a whole section devoted to the problem of global warming.
Increased carbon dioxide into the environment makes the plants and trees flourish faster, and produce up to five times more pollen. This has increased cases of rhinitis, ocular allergies and other ailments.
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