The increasing awareness of food allergy imposes the parallel task of proper treatment and prevention. 'Food allergy' means individualistic adverse reaction to food that have an immunologic basis. Most of the known food allergens are proteins, althoug...
The increasing awareness of food allergy imposes the parallel task of proper treatment and prevention. 'Food allergy' means individualistic adverse reaction to food that have an immunologic basis. Most of the known food allergens are proteins, although some food additives are thought to have allergenic activity also. Treatment is basically dietary avoidance. But it requires considerable knowledge of food composition on the part of the allergic individual.
Dieticians should be trained to provide better advice on the construction of safe and effective avoidance diets.