What is a Food Intolerance ?
What is food intolerance?
Food intolerance must not be confused with classic allergies!
Allergy
An allergy is the body’s defence mechanism against an offensive substance. Intense reactions such as swelling of the lips, swelling of the throat, skin rash, fits of sneezing, feeling of suffocation, etc. that manifest themselves quickly are typical signs of an allergy. These reactions generally occur shortly after consuming the food in question. Therefore, a food allergy is easily recognizable.
Classic food allergies (IgE specific or type I ) are quite rare and affect only a small percentage of the population. The ImuPro 300 test does not identify this type of allergy, but rather exposes food intolerances.
Food intolerance
ImuPro 300 is not a diagnosis of food allergies but a very detailed analysis of food intolerances by searching for specific IgG antibodies to various foods. Food intolerance is completely different from a type I allergy. It occurs very frequently and develops throughout the life of an individual and often spontaneously. From birth, the infant may already be sensitive to various foods through the mother’s milk. The difficulty is that, unlike a type I allergy, the symptoms of food intolerance, which vary greatly, may resemble those of an allergy and often appear only hours or even days after eating the food.
It is therefore possible for example, that you have an intolerance to, for example, lettuce, tomatoes, potatoes, yogurt or milk, etc. The intolerance activates your immune system and causes metabolic changes, resulting in health problems without your being immediately aware of them.
In general, the connection between health problems and food goes unnoticed by the people concerned. The goal of the ImuPro 300 multitest is to establish this connection.
How does food intolerance show itself?
Continuous stimulation of the immune system and an inflammatory reaction, supported by repeated and continuous ingestion of risky foods, are the origin of food intolerance.
These intolerances disrupt the intestinal function: The foods responsible are not completely assimilated and the partially digested residue mobilizes your immune system. This residue is recognized and attacked as a foreign body.
Your immune system works hard to cope, which weakens your body.
In addition, these chronic symptoms lead to lesions and chronic inflammations in certain tissues and the appearance of inflammatory and auto-immune diseases and phenomena, such as allergies and hypersensitivity.
Why does food intolerance occur?
Intolerance often results from the interaction of various elements. These may include:
- Dietary habits that are often very monotonous
- Mass production of food
- Alcohol or chronic exposure
- Age of first contact with the antigen
- Nature and amount of the antigen
- Frequency of administration (chronicity)
- Stress and environmental factors
- Intestinal infections–>disruption of the permeability of the small intestine
- Drugs
- Genetic predisposition
- Immune status of the host
