What are the differences between Food Intolerance, Food Allergy and Food Hypersensitivity?
What are the differences between Food Intolerance, Food Allergy and Food Hypersensitivity?
In fact, intolerance, allergy and hypersensitivity to food are all adverse reactions.
For a long time, the scientific community could not agree on the classification of adverse reactions to food. The most widely recognized classification is that of European Academy of Allergology and Clinical Immunology […]
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), fibromyalgia and multiple chemical sensitivities (MCS) constitute three different clinical entities that are, however, associated (Jason et al., 2000; White et al., 2000) and that in the past were grouped under the term neurasthenia (Schäfer, 2002).
It was not until the mid-1980s that CFS was recognized as a separate disease. At the […]
Type III Food Allergies: An Asthma Risk Factor
Les allergies alimentaires de type III, un facteur de risque d’asthme
Occurrences of atopic illnesses have dramatically increased during the last decades, particularly in western countries. 4,5
On one hand, based on epidemiologic evidence, we know that a relationship exists between asthma severity and the duration of the illness 6. On the other hand, since asthma in […]